The Quaqua Protégé Award recognizes the most outstanding college-bound home-educated students in the world. As funds permit, other general and talent-specific awards are also given.
Quaqua assists homeschool educators around the world to interact, showcase their achievements, receive financial aid, build friendships, obtain career assistance, and help the general public to appreciate the benefits derived from personal and secular rights.
Homeschooling a gifted child can sometimes be challenging. Some homeschooling groups welcome gifted children, but others seem less comfortable with the disparity between a gifted child's age and abilities. Working together, we can pool our resources, share our stories, and give our kids the chance to socialize and have fun with kids like them -- not just with kids as old as they are.
Unschoolers Unlimited publishes a newsletter, mailing list, and learning exchange list to stay in touch and network. Members hold family gatherings every other month so to socialize, share ideas and information, inspiration and good food.
This organization, based in California, is interested in linking families with information and resources regarding educating a gifted child at home. They provide gifted homeschoolers with the opportunity to network and increase awareness of homeschooling as a viable educational alternative for gifted children.
HSLDA works on national and state levels to advocate for parental freedoms, especially the rights of parents to direct their children's educations. It provides legal support to members free of charge. HSLDA provides a wide array of services to the homeschool community.
The mission of National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) is: to produce high-quality research on home-based education; serve as a clearinghouse of research for homeschoolers, researchers, and policy makers; educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education. NHERI's forte is in the realm of research, statistics, technical reports, data, facts, demographics, the academic world, consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness while serving people ranging from researchers and policy makers to professional educators, teachers, homeschoolers, and parents in general to the media, marketing consultants, and the general public.
The HomeSchool Association of California:
Honors the diversity of homeschoolers,
Supports and promotes the entire spectrum of homeschooling,
Provides information,
Monitors and influences legislation,
Offers opportunities for families to get together, and
Empowers families to make the choices that respect the rights, needs, and aspirations of their children.
This site hosts a message board to support families who homeschool by county in Michigan. It also includes many groups, such as SAGE - which specifically offers support for gifted education in the home.
PA Homeschoolers is a network linking homeschoolers that organizes political action, provides for communication among homeschoolers, and organizes state-wide activities including a homeschool excellence day in the Harrisburg Capitol Rotunda. This is a great site for homeschoolers and even parents of children in public or private schools. This organization has also published several books and guides, which it sells in their internet bookstore. The site also sells workbooks, educational games, math textbooks, videos, and other educational materials to the homeschooling community nationwide. The PA Homeschoolers organization offers AP Internet courses and reviews of the textbooks that it sells.
The Texas Home School Coalition is the state support organization whose mission is to serve and protect the home school community of Texas. It provides assistance and support for families that are considering or are already homeschooling.
The author, "Anonymous," is the mother of a profoundly gifted boy whom she decided not to send to the local elementary school, but to educate at home instead. This book is the mother's side of the correspondence between herself and the principal, explaining why she was not enrolling her child in a conventional school. "Anonymous" traces in painstaking detail the educational development of her profoundly gifted son between the ages of six and nine, as she uses a child-directed method of learning.
This book examines the lack of a "crisis of confidence" in homeschooled adolescent girls, compared with other girls in more traditional school settings. Several of the girls interviewed for this study are intellectually or artistically gifted.
The story of homeschooled profoundly gifted child, Michael, who attended kindergarten at age 3 and graduated from high school in only one year at the age of six. He graduated from college at 10; holds four Guinness World Records; and, graduated with a Master's Degree in Chemistry at 14.
This book documents the home education of a musically talented, highly intellectually gifted child, from the perspective of her father. An interesting, detailed account of the child's musical development within the context of the total educational program is included.
This is a helpful, practical guide to college admissions for homeschoolers, especially those who may not have had a "typical" program or sequence of study (including unschoolers or early college entrants). Cohen describes and provides examples of how to translate interdisciplinary homeschooling curriculum and apprenticeship experiences into a high school transcript, and de-mystifies the college admissions process. Highly recommended, especially as a guide to developing a transcript for students whose homeschooling programs have included non-traditional educational experiences.
This book chronicles one year in the life of a homeschooling family with two profoundly gifted children. It is written by a mother who decided to remove her son from school after a disastrous early experience and used an unschooling approach to teach her children at home. Both children are accomplished musicians.
This book is a comprehensive guide to homeschooling. It includes features on reasons to homeschool, record keeping, curriculum resources, how to get started, college preparation, social and emotional issues, and much more. It also includes a chapter on homeschooling your twice exceptional child.
Berquist's book provides a direct, clear explication of materials, books, and schedules to select when implementing a classical homeschooling program for each grade, K through 12. Specific recommended materials, books, and subjects are provided. This book has a Catholic emphasis, but the suggested Catholic materials can easily be replaced with secular or Protestant materials if desired.
This book discusses how a public high school English teacher homeschooled his own children. It touches on the primarily child-led curriculum he used, the reluctance of his peers to accept his choice to homeschool, and the common question of socialization. He makes a strong argument about why homeschooling makes sense through research as well as example.
This comprehensive guide from Vincent Kiernan, provides students, teachers, and educators with a road map to the rapidly expanding field of online high schools. Math, Science, History, English and even physical education - name the course, and this book will help you find it online
This book features descriptions of daily life in the homeschools of a number of African American and biracial families. Several of the vignettes include homeschools with extremely gifted children. The volume provides an excellent perspective on what it's really like to homeschool, day in and day out, with bright, curious children.
This chapter reviews the history of the homeschooling movement among families with gifted children, explores some of the reasons families of gifted children choose homeschooling as an educational alternative, reviews the way giftedness can unexpectedly impact legal issues, curriculum development, and socialization in the homeschool, and looks ahead at the future of homeschooling gifted children.
This guide to educating gifted children at home includes information about giftedness, home schooling, and the intersection between the two. The material in the book is designed for new home schooling families, or for those who have just learned that their children are gifted. It includes resources and helpful forms for record keeping. The authors are all home schooling parents of gifted children. This book contains a non-denominational Christian perspective.
This book describes a homeschooling method for highly gifted students which stresses a self-actualizing home education approach based on the child's interests and motivation. The book is grounded in theory and research from education and psychology.
This manual provides Christian homeschoolers with a plan for preparing for schooling and career after high school graduation. The Callihans explore the college admissions process, college entrance, career preparation, future family life, and other related issues from a Christian perspective. Specific materials and resources are suggested. The Callihans also briefly address the issue of early graduation.
This book/course is designed to help teens become increasingly independent in planning and managing their own homeschooling programs. Sections include goal-setting; making a four-year high school plan; working out a yearly plan; planning individual courses; developing and completing course assignments and projects; scheduling; record-keeping; and planning for post-secondary education. The book contains many helpful, reproducible forms that will streamline the planning and recordkeeping tasks of home schooling for many families. Transcript format options are included. It is nominally coming from a Christian perspective, but can easily be adapted to students of any faith, or none.
Homeschool Your Child For Free is a compilation of free curriculum guides, worksheets, educational materials, lesson plans, reference materials, teaching tips, legal issues, and more. Parents can use it to design a homeschool program, without spending any money. It contains reading readiness activities for preschoolers to science projects for teens, and categorizes, reviews, and rates more than 1,200 educational resources on the Internet and beyond.
This book by author C. Cohen is for homeschooling families who are looking in to college. The transition from homeschooling children to preparing them for success in college deserves both planning and preparation. As the parent of a homeschooler, you have many issues to consider besides academic excellence: fulfilling other people's expectations and standards, tackling standardized tests and application essays, and introducing your homeschooler to the atmosphere of a college campus.
Now you can direct your child confidently and effectively. This important addition to Prima's acclaimed homeschooling series is filled with tips and insider advice from homeschooling families whose children now attend the schools of their choice.
This book contains the curriculum suggestions of the Colfaxes, who sent three homeschooled sons to Harvard.
"A compelling story about one family's journey into the unknown territory of homeschooling, told with skill by Alison McKee, a gifted teacher with a wide experience in traditional education and a special sensitivity to the individual needs of children. Trusting her own children to 'show me the way' was a difficult challenge - but one that gave unexpected and rich rewards."
This book is a complete guide to successfully homeschooling the 13 to 18 year old, the years when many homeschooling parents start to question or abandon their efforts. It's a precarious time, with challenging academics, pressing social issues, and the prospect of college looming. Parents can now breathe easy: this guide calms the teen-time jitters and offers hope to those turning to homeschooling now that their child is about to enter high school. With "how we did it" testimonies from other parents throughout the book, the author offers sage advice.
A beautiful picture book for younger children about homeschooling.
The volume "Ignite the FIRE!" is both a philosophy of education and collection of creative ideas for teaching basic, advanced, and enrichment subjects in a homeschooling setting. The author's perspective is avowedly Christian in orientation, but even if you do not share the author's religious beliefs, this volume contains enough exciting and practical ideas for teaching to make it very valuable to homeschooling parents and to elementary gifted education enrichment teachers alike.
The author of 10 books that concentrate on early child development and education, Holt is widely considered the father of the modern-day homeschooling movement because he grew to believe that schools stifle the learning process. In this, his final book--compiled by colleagues from drafts, letters, and magazine essays written by Holt before he died in 1985--he strings together his own observations and philosophies to show how young children can be encouraged to learn everything from reading and math to music and science.
Stoner's early book describes in minute detail the homeschooling program of her daughter, Winifred, from babyhood through middle childhood. Stoner's book features the "progressive thinking" of the day, including chapters on discipline, eugenics, world peace, and Esperanto. Stoner's philosophy was very different from Berle's, though their books appeared the same year.
No Regrets is Alexandra Swann's personal story of her homeschooling career and her very early entrance into college via a distance learning/independent study bachelor's degree program. This volume espouses a philosophy of homeschooling called "accelerated academics." Alexandra and her nine siblings all homeschooled and completed high school work by the ages of 11 or 12. Although the "gifted" word is never mentioned in this book, it is obvious that this is a very gifted girl, with very gifted siblings. This book also tells the story of how a homeschooling family stuck together in good times and bad. At 16, with a master's degree in hand, Alexandra became a community college instructor.
This book from the NAGC is a practical guide to the process, which includes an overview of research on gifted education, establishing a philosophy, vision, mission, and goals, selecting students, planning curriculum, attending to business matters and evaluating the school’s effectiveness.
The latest edition of this award-winning spelling program includes a digital tutor, new DVD seminar and a number of other updates to accomplish it's goal - to teach solid, basic spelling skills. Geared toward homeschoolers, Spelling Power can be beneficial for gifted students because it allows them to work at their own pace and accelerate through curriculum when needed.
The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook provides parents and teachers with information on all the resources needed to plan a well-balanced curriculum for the home or the classroom, from preschool through high school. The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook not only covers basic academic subjects--the three R's--but also addresses interests that are off the beaten path of public school curricula, such as paleontology and meteorology. Thorough and up-to-date, this invaluable resource reviews all possible learning tools.
Berle's two books are the first real "homeschooling manuals" for the general public in this century. In the first book, he outlines a Christian philosophy of home education. The second book reviews curriculum materials. Berle raised four extremely gifted children, considered prodigies in their day, who entered college early. One son became deputy Secretary of State under FDR.
Howard and Susan Richman wrote this book about homeschooling their four children in the early elementary years. The Pennsylvania homeschooler's site says, "Here's a great help for parents for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic at home. Helps beginning homeschoolers see how home education can be different from schools. Inspiration and ideas for the experienced homeschooler as well."
This book describes the joys of homeschooling and essential tools for success from a personal experience vantage point. This book includes a CD-rom containing the complete text of the book plus web-site links and a browser.
Author, Art Reed, has taken his more than 20 years of experience with Saxon Math books and put this experience and knowledge into a 132-page guide to assist homeschool educators in their successful use of Saxon math books – from Math 54 through calculus and physics. Answers are provided to questions such as: How are the high school courses correctly transcripted?; Does the Saxon high school student receive credit for geometry – and when?; and, Do Saxon math books still offer an excellent math curriculum?
This guide to classical education features complete descriptions of each of the classical education stages (grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric); suggests pedagogical approaches at each stage; and suggests textbooks and resources. The second half of the book focuses on specific homeschooling issues, including socialization, athletics, schedules, record keeping, and testing. It offers a secular, rather than religious, approach.
What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book from E.D. Jr Hirsch answers these all-important questions and more.
This book describes several very bright young writers between the ages of 10 and 15; contains examples of their work; and provides information about how an adult writer mentored them.
This series is a complete writing program using a process approach to writing and composition assuring continuity and control. It has been written specifically for homeschoolers. The author has created manuals for the parent and/or student to use, depending on the level, suggesting the typical number of days to spend on each assignment. The author has also created manuals to teach fiction and interpersonal relationship skills, as well as to evaluate writing.
Home Education Magazine is one of the oldest, most respected, and most informative magazines on the subject of homeschooling. Each issue offers the very best interviews, feature articles, regular columns, political commentary and analysis, news reporting and more! Home Education Magazine is owned and operated by our second-generation homeschooling family. We understand homeschooling because we are homeschoolers. Our five children, ages 15 to 28, have always been homeschooled. In 1983 we began publishing Home Education Magazine for homeschooling families across the country. Almost twenty years later HEM is respected as one of the premier magazines in the homeschooling field, described as "informative and commonsense" by Library Journal's Magazines for Libraries and "highly recommended" by EBSCO's Librarian's Handbook.
This website for A Beka offers three homeschool options for families: A DVD program, a traditional parent-directed option, and textbooks/materials for homeschoolers. The program is a producy of Pensacola Christian College.
Calvert is an actual private school in Baltimore, MD. offering a homeschool curriculum. Their complete course packages are balanced and coordinated allowing home schooling parents to spend the majority of their time educating their children, rather than researching subjects or writing lesson plans. Through creative presentations and clever games, learning can be fun, yet challenging. The classes utilizes fundamentals, reinforced through repeated drills and ample free time to encourage the independent development of the student. The goal is to help guide the students' education while allowing them to discover their own paths.
This coeducational public cyber school for K-8 grade students provides a new form of public school that students can attend from home. This is a free program that combines the strong parental involvement of homeschooling, the expertise and accountability of publicly funded education, and the flexibility of online classes. Parents pay no tuition for students to attend CCA. Students are considered to be enrolled in a public school and receive the loan of a desktop computer and a printer. Students are required to take all state mandated, standardized tests in person at locations designated by the school. Students are accepted from anywhere in the state.
The NAG is an online nationally accredited K-12 private school. Offering 120+ accredited, multimedia-rich courses, a giftedness assessment program, and high school diplomas, The National Academy for the Gifted uses cutting-edge technology to bring private gifted education into the home for the first time.
The learning process at The National Academy for the Gifted is asynchronous. Courses offered allow students to advance academically as far and quickly as they are able throughout the year. Unbound by grade levels or rigid guidelines, gifted children are free to learn according to their own abilities rather than having to move with the rest of the class.
The Great Books Academy is a complete, nursery through 12th grade, classical, liberal arts homeschool program. Course options include books and Lesson Plans for: Art, Cartography, Geography, Language Arts, Literature, Math, Music, Philosophy, Science, History, Foreign Languages and online Socratic discussions. Graduates have the option of testing for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree by the Great Books University College.
This is a home school cooperative. There are a variety of classes offered for children ranging from foreign language to geography. Classes meet once or twice per week and are led by parents, professionals and/or students.
This online school is a private online learning center with a rolling admissions policy. Founded in 1982, CALCampus offers courses and certificate programs for support for homeschooling on the secondary level, and support for high school and postsecondary study. The High School Division offers a Diploma Program which has its own admissions policies. CALCampus High School is nationally accredited by the National Association of Private Schools and is a candidate for accreditation by the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA).
Carolina Biological Supply Co. provides supplies, educational resources and lab aids for the instruction of math and science. Sections of the site include; Worlds of Science such as, Anthropology and Archaeology, Biotechnology and Genetics, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Ecology, K-6 Science, Mathematics, Physics, Software, etc.
GSN is a provider of Virtual Curriculum ideal for homeschool students and families. Delivered entirely over the internet, this curriculum for grades 2-12 is deeply rooted in the National Academic Content Standards.Global Virtual Curriculum offers a complete, affordable, and comprehensive on-line education solution.
This website is an excellent source of information for the homeschool community. The Home School Resource Center section contains teaching materials, helpful articles and other resources. The Home Business Resource Center section teaches children how to start their own family businesses. Home School Marketplace also provides e-newsletters, product reviews, recommendations and much more!
This computer program is a full-featured homeschool planner for creating homeschool records and lesson plans. This program does much more than just create printed forms -- it is a database that uses your lesson plan inputs to automatically create assignment sheets, progress reports, report cards, transcripts, and more. It applies the grading scale of your choice and uses your own customized school year calendar. HomeSchool Easy Records also uses your time-and-attendance inputs to automatically track cumulative hours in each subject, days attended, days earned, and days absent. It even gives an estimate of when the school year will end if you decide to accelerate or have a flexible schedule. Each student gets his or her own set of records, and you can easily share assignments among multiple students. If you have a PC with Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or Windows 98, you are ready to begin keeping some very professional looking records for grades K-12.
A homeschooling father developed this internet online reporting to help minimize the administrative burden of reporting. This site is designed to help schools and families meet their reporting requirements in a fun and efficient manner.
This audio tape of a Hollingworth Conference session offers first-hand accounts of homeschooling from the perspective of five homeschooling parents. They discuss how and why they made the decision to home school and they discuss their college admission experience at length. The session is moderated by Kathleen Julicher.
This website on homeschooling provides several articles ranging from gifted child development to special needs children. There are articles with religious slants as well as secular issues. Numerous print resources on various issues regarding homeschooling are provided.
This series of workbooks, published by Key Curriculum Press, is targeted at K-6 homeschooled students. The material is not specifically designed for the gifted, but students can utilize advanced grade materials. As part of the coursework, students build models for concepts to prepare them for written work.
This distance learning resource by Pennsylvania Homeschoolers provides online AP courses for homeschool students. These courses are designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement tests in particular curriculum areas. The courses includes a lot of interaction between teacher and students.
RainbowResource.com is a family owned, on-line store, with catalogue, for homeschoolers everywhere. Our mission is to provide quality educational materials to home school families and private schools. Their hefty catalog (396 pages) is full of educational supplies, spanning all academic areas, plus more. There are many, many resources for each subject area, science supplies and kits, arts and crafts supplies, educational games, etc.
Singapore Math offers series of books on both math and science appropriate for classroom use and homeschooling. There are six different series of math programs from pre-school to college and two levels of science: primary and lower secondary. They offer textbooks and workbooks as well as teacher's guides. Offers placement tests, placement guides, scope and sequence, answer keys and online forum help.
Sonlight Curriculum is more than a company or a curriculum. It is a community as well. Sonlight offers products to effectively teach homeschoolers including instructor's guides, student activity sheets and study guides. Purchases can be made through the online catalog, or a printed catalog can be requested.
This orgnaization offers 200 college-level courses for lifelong learners. Courses are offered on DVD, audio CD and other formats and provide the adventure of learning, without the homework or exams.
Time4Learning is an online resource that provides activities for students in grades preschool to eighth grade who wish to improve math and reading skills. This site offers homeschool curriculum, after-school learning, and summer activities for pre-school, elementary and middle school students. Online educational teaching games allow the student to work at their own pace, developing independence and efficiency. Parents can track their children’s progress and have access to printable worksheets for reinforcement, quizzes, and unit tests.
Veritas Press offers an online catalog filled with teaching materials for secular teaching. Their catalog provides "Christian educators in the home and school setting with quality tools for a quality education."
This website is the authors' personal companion website to their best-selling book "The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home." The website is chock-full of very helpful information for those who are considering or are using a classical approach to homeschooling (and also for public and private schools using a classical curriculum). Included on the website are bulletin boards where homeschooling parents can discuss successes and problems in using the classical approach at home; sample chapters and resource lists from the authors' book; helpful handouts from their conference presentations; a classical curriculum review index; basic information about homeschooling; and a wonderful set of links to educational materials and curriculum sites for classical education.
This website contains a number of resources and tips on homeschool. Both teachers and parents will find many of the homeschool articles and links relevant. Information on the best textbooks and extracurricular material is also provided.
This organization, based in California, is interested in linking families with information and resources regarding educating a gifted child at home. They provide gifted homeschoolers with the opportunity to network and increase awareness of homeschooling as a viable educational alternative for gifted children.
This website contains a wide variety of information, including links to the state departments of education pages with content standards. There are also various resource links and helpful hints on how to best use content standards in regards to homeschooling.
There is also a section devoted to homeschooling gifted children.
Aphelion is an intensive learning environment facilitated by the Internet. Students work from home or wherever they can access the net. Our first student continued her work when she was at home in Niagara or visiting in Toronto. Much of the student's studies takes place away from the computer. Books, video and experimentation are an important part of "multimedia" learning.
This brief article discusses the reasons why an exceptionally gifted child may need to homeschool, and the arrangements that need to be made to accommodate extreme asynchronous development in a homeschooling program.
This website is one of the best resources on the Internet for those who are using a challenging classical homeschooling approach with their children. Included are numerous articles describing the stages of classical education and curriculum suggestions for each stage; an online catalog providing easy links for ordering classical homeschooling curriculum materials; a frequently-asked questions section; a large collection of internet curriculum links; an art history index; a very helpful page of Latin curriculum reviews that will help a family or school choose an appropriate Latin program for a particular child; a classical educator's support group loop; and many other materials and information. This is a Christian website but much of the material is easily adaptable to a secular approach to classical education.
This website contains classic examples of art from various eras of Western civilization, with many links to other art history sites.
This website contains information and many useful homeschool forms printables for those who are educating children. The print-outs are in two formats, Adobe Acrobat and Rich Text Format. You will need the Acrobat Reader to open the Acrobat files. The Rich Text Format files can be opened with Microsoft Word and possibly with WordPerfect.
This website includes a list of "online schools, correspondence schools, and other suppliers of stand alone curriculum. It does not include information about the broad array of high school level curriculum available to homeschoolers."
This email discussion list is for families homeschooling gifted/special needs children.
Home Educator's Family Times is the homeschool publication for new or veteran homeschool families. The website offers a variety of homeschooling resources for parents, educators, and other professionals.
Homeschooldads.com is a website geared specifically for fathers who homeschool their children. This website has homeschool articles, homeschool resources, a homeschool bookstore, and message boards.
This parent walks the reader through her initial thoughts and concerns about homeschooling, explaining the effect it can have on the whole family.
This short article discusses why homeschooling often fits the unique educational needs of the highly gifted.
This interview with Andrew Wyeth gives insight into his homeschooling as an artist in his father's studio, beginning at age 7.
This is a great resource for new homeschoolers, gifted and twice exceptional homeschoolers and veteran homeschoolers. Content includes the basics of homeschooling along with actual curriculum ideas and online resources
This website was created to empower parents to create the ideal school for their child at home! Homeschool.com's founding principal is to consistently provide resources, information, and support to all homeschooling families.
This online curriculum resource was developed by Charity Lovelace, a homeschooling mother. She has made available on this site unit studies she has written herself, plus links to more than 300 unit studies posted elsewhere on the Internet. Most unit studies are complete with curriculum goals and objectives, lists of required materials and readings, and evaluation procedures. An amazing resource for new and veteran homeschooling families; particularly appropriate for gifted children, since many of the units incorporate interdisciplinary approaches.
This About.com article provides many helpful hints for those beginning a home school curriculum. Author Beverly Hernandez has included a number of links for resources related to home schooling and education in general. Both beginners and experienced home schoolers should find this a useful resource.
This article provides a wealth of information on homeschooling for parents unfamiliar with the topic.
The Imperfect Homeschooler is a website designed by homeschooling mom, Barbara Frank. She provides articles and homeschool links on her site. An archive of past articles is also available.
This website by The College Board provides helpful information and links for homeschoolers preparing for college admission. Although designed for those applying for college at the traditional age, the information may be even more critical for those interested in full time early college admission. Links are included to relevant information and materials.
Karl Bunday, creator of this informative website on homeschooling, outlines the steps of getting started with independant education and how to use schools and teachers only when they are helpful to you. Also found are great references on this subject including socialization and homeschooling resource guides.
This article discusses the reality that can occur when a child is taken out of public school and homeschooled. "He just won't do anything!" say the parents of teenagers who have just left school. Prior to beginning homeschooling, these parents have high hopes. They envision their older kids industriously attacking thoughtfully selected curriculum, running a business, publishing a book, graduating early, and winning big scholarship money. Some of those things may happen, but - in the first days and weeks and months of homeschooling - reality bites. Most new homeschooling families with teens deal with an adjustment period I call decompression.
This report presents the results of the largest survey and testing program for students in home schools to date. In Spring 1998, 20,760 K-12 home school students in 11,930 families were administered either the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP), depending on their current grade. The parents responded to a questionnaire requesting background and demographic information.
"WorldandIHomeschool.com is an interdisciplinary resource that provides a broad range of thought-provoking reading in the areas of current affairs, the arts, science, literature, global culture studies, philosophy, religion, economics, social commentary, and more."
"Froguts officially started in the Spring of 2001 after Richard Hill developed the first frog simulation for a graduate project. As froguts grew in acclaim, and costs mounted, it became apparent to us that we needed to establish a company in order to continue developing quality education modules." They offer their laboratory maintenance and specimen purchase products to schools, and to individuals in the privacy of their home.
Choose from the Family Edition, Homeschool Edition or School Edition to enrich the educational programs in your school or family setting. 16 art lessons from the award-winning art education in geeART16 include a glossary of terms, gallery of art and a section to build a personal portfolio. Interactive quizzes measure students' knowledge and allow them to collect rewards.
The primary focus of this non-profit organization is to provide science enrichment classes to underserved and at-risk youth. Rock-It Science offers three programs: In-Class Instruction; Summer Programs and Camps; and, Homeschool Science Classes.
The TabletClass concept is much more than simple math videos, it’s a remarkable educational system that duplicates what is taught in the classroom. The result is a tested and proven master online learning program that gives the student extensive math instruction as if they were personally being taught by the math teacher.