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The Homeschooling Hack

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By Lauren Hilgers
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This article was featured in New York's One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. For an idealized image of homeschooling - a glimpse of the life parents and children might lead off the clock, out of institutions, on their own - one could do worse than visit Heckscher Playground on the south end of Central Park early on a Wednesday afternoon. Most of the kids in New York are still in their classrooms, but a sizable group of children meets here weekly.
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Book Review: ‘Fly, Wild Swans,’ by Jung Chang

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By Lauren Hilgers
| The New York Times Verified
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Growing Pains, by Lauren Hilgers

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By Lauren Hilgers
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Months before there was a preschool along FM 969—a swollen farm-to-market road on the outskirts of Austin, Texas—there was a sign. Pasted on either side of a wooden billboard in front of a faded redbrick church, the advertisement stood next to a grassy ditch and a few cracked squares of sidewalk that led nowhere in particular. the joyful child, it read, in a rope of white cursive script: childcare for everyone.
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