Homeschooling Comes of Age Teaching children at home is no longer just the choice of religious and political iconoclasts. Now, drawn by Brown's tradition of independence and self-direction, a new generation of homeschoolers is arriving-and thriving-on campus. Today Joyce Reed '61, '65 A.M. might be hailed as a pioneer of the modern homeschooling movement, but thirty years ago she was an aberration. In 1970 she moved to the island of Hawaii with her anthropologist husband and young daughter. They lived in the town of Hilo for a year, then fell in love with a falling-down house forty miles outside town. Reed and her husband rebuilt the house, decided they liked living closer to the land, and eventually had four more children there. For ten years they lived off the grid: no electricity, no telephone, no indoor plumbing, no television, no radio. And no school.***