Homeschool Curriculum

How to Choose Curriculum
Greene County Daily World (blog)
One of the first questions new homeschoolers have is how to choose a curriculum. While there are many options, they can be roughly sorted into three main strategies-- going with a boxed curriculum, picking out your books individually, or doing a unit ...

Registration Opens for Local Home School Conference
PR.com (press release)
Registration for the one-day event is $25 and includes a keynote speaker, educational workshops throughout the day, a catered lunch, access to the vendor hall and used curriculum book sale, and the opportunity to network with homeschool experts and ...

Why Are Urban, Professional Parents Choosing Homeschooling?
Care2.com (blog)
It is true that nowadays there are lots of resources available for homeschooling parents including, in some cities, curriculum, centers and classes designed especially for these youngsters. And yet, I worry that these homeschooling parents will become ...

Cumberland Regional considers allowing home-school students on CRHS sports teams
Today's Sunbeam - NJ.com
Transfer to a home-school program. Any student who withdraws from a public school program to enroll in a home-school program, and who is ineligible at the time of withdrawal from the public school program due the student's failure to meet academic, ...

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Charter school program would put home-schoolers in charge
Wausau Daily Herald
The family has joined the Merrill Area Public School Bridges to Learn program because it will be transformed into a charter school in July. / Courtesy Kelsey Schoeppler MERRILL -- A program that would allow home-school families to manage a new Merrill ...

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The Cure for Homeschool Dorkiness
Patch.com
By Andrea McKenzie There are many stereotypes about homeschoolers. Though most are not true, we genuinely earn some of them. One of those is that homeschoolers are socially awkward geeks. Yup, that pretty much sums it up, at least in my case.

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Under rules, home-school students can't participate in school extracurricular ...
Crossville Chronicle
She noted home school programs could have higher expectations than the school system, however, the school system had no governance of home-school curriculum. Home-school students are required to be tested through the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment ...

Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education
Newsweek
Homeschoolers in Philadelphia, for instance, must submit a plan of study and test scores, while parents in Detroit need not even let officials know they're homeschooling. Some families seek out a more classical curriculum, others a more unconventional ...

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How my child went from home school to Harvard and yours can, too
Fox News
Today it is over $70 billion annually, plus another $175 billion extra in education spending from Obama's stimulus program. Add up the numbers. We've gone from $30 billion annually to almost $200 billion in just over a decade.

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Home-school notes: Gateway Academy takes some of the legwork out of home-schooling
The Tennessean
The professional educators on staff want to collaborate with parents to produce an individualized learning program for home-school students. Pat Elkins, director of Learning Lab in Brentwood, highlights why clients have come to the Gateway Academy.