Kevin Swanson was raised and homeschooled by his parents on the Japanese mission field in the 1960's and 70's. After graduating from homeschooling, Kevin attended a large California university where he was elected student body president by a student body of 17,000. He and his wife, Brenda, are now homeschooling their five children. Kevin has 35 years of experience in the homeschooling movement and has served as Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado for the last seven years. He has served in various other leadership positions in corporate management, church, and other non-profits.
For the last 3 years Kevin has hosted a daily radio program, Generations - a Homeschool and Biblical worldview program broadcast on air across the Rocky Mountain Front Range and via the web to all 50 states and over 30 countries around the world. He is also the author of two books: The Second Mayflower and Upgrade: The Ten Time-Tested Secrets of a Successful Education. Serving as a resource on home education, he has been featured on hundreds of media outlets, including Dr. James' Dobson's Focus on the Family and the Fox News Network.
Kevin Swanson's Book - "Upgrade"
Upgrade: Ten Secrets to the Best Education for Your Child
Author - Kevin Swanson
For over 20 years the modern homeschool movement has been changing hearts and revitalizing families all across America. Why? In his engagingly simple yet profound new book, Kevin Swanson shares the real secret of why home education has been the most successful educational movement of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Upgrade has been the careful production of an author who has been in the homeschool movement since 1969. Homeschooled himself as a young child, Kevin Swanson has previously taught in public and private high school and college, and now serves as Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado. As a spokesman for the homeschool movement, he has been interviewed on Focus on the Family and The Fox News Network. After teaching Home School Introductory Seminars and speaking at home school conferences for 20 years, Kevin encapsulates the home school vision in this insightful and engaging book.
Why is Upgrade so powerful?
- Affirms, sharpens, and strengthens the homeschooling vision
- Highlights the basic factors that produce a good education in any learning environment
- One of the first ever philosophical apologetics for the modern home education movement using common sense and robust biblical principles, without giving way to forced exegetics or excessively tight applications
- Essential for any parent who has made the choice to care about the education for his/her child
- A non-judgmental, gentle, yet persuasive outline for new homeschoolers or for those families who are just considering homeschooling