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Do you need assurance that you are not alone in your quest to home educate your children? Do you need friendly support that you know you can go to when you need information, protection, or just more encouragement? MACHE wants to introduce you to three resources that will do just that.

National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) conducts and collects research about homeschooling and publishes the research journal, The Homeschool Researcher. NHERI has hundreds of research works documented and catalogued on homeschooling. If you need homeschool statistics to support your desire to educate your children at home, NHERI is the place to go.

American Home Education and Discipleship (AHEAD) conferences are sponsored by Christian, state-wide, family-focused, home education organizations throughout North America. Representing forty-eight affiliate state organizations with hundreds of years of homeschooling experience, you will find plenty of encouragement, curriculum, and support whether you are just thinking about...

What is NHERI?

NHERI is the National Home Education Research Institute. NHERI conducts and collects research about homeschooling and publishes the research journal called the Home School Researcher. The institute has hundreds of research works documented and catalogued on homeschooling, many of which were done by NHERI. Simply put, NHERI specializes in homeschool research.

NHERI exists to do the following things:

• To research those who teach their children at home;
• To publish the research journal called the Home School Researcher, which chronicles the current research being done about homeschooling;
• To speak to the media, legislators, and national organizations about the homeschooling movement, showing factual research about those who teach their children at home;
• To serve as conference speakers and teachers for groups interested in homeschooling; and
• To work with legislators on Capitol Hill, and with state/local legislators, on issues related to parental rights, the freedom we have to teach our children at home, and homeschoolers coordinating with local school officials.
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Homeschool Conferences that make an eternal difference

The National Alliance for Christian Home Education Leadership (NACHEL- referred to as the Alliance) is a non-profit group that supports leaders serving leaders in the home education community. It is made up of 48 loosely associated, but solidly Christian state-wide affiliate home education organizations from 45 states, Canada and Mexico and has over 1,000 years of cumulative home education experience.These are all fully Christian statewide organizations that have a statement of faith and bylaws that ensure perpetual Christian leadership for these groups. Frequently leaders from other nations participate in the annual conferences and in other affiliate events.The Alliance has existed and been serving the homeschooling community as a collective group for roughly 20-25 years. MACHE is proud to be a part of this Christ-honoring group!

However, as the winds of change have brought home education to the marketplace, we have seen the advent of for-personal-profit homeschool conventions. As you might expect, these have had an adverse effect on many of the non-profit conferences associated with...