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New! Ed
Anywhere
The ED Anywhere programs not only offer quality curriculum and academic
options but are also one of the lowest costing programs online. In addition,
unlike many other providers, the company offers a variety of educational
solutions all in one place including: Middle and High School Curriculum, GED
Track, Remedial and Credit Recovery, Career Pathways Testing, K to 8th
Technology Classes, and the Friends & Family Rewards Program. |
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New! Math Goodies - Fun Interactive Learning
Math Goodies, a free math help site, can help many students become engaged in math by making learning fun through games and interactive activities. By providing homework help and support students receive the skills and confidence they need to succeed. Math Goodies also offers sample lessons, worksheets, and puzzles for both students and educators to try online. |
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Homeschool.com's Great Projects for Summer 2008
Now's that it's approaching summer, it's a good time to start planning for that summer vacation and the inevitable cries "bored" children that really just need a few ideas to get them going. With just a little focus and structure students can be productive and yet still have a lot of fun! By adding these projects to your summer activities everyone can have a boredom-free summer! |
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ALEKS - An Online Homeschooling Option to Accelerate Math Learning
ALEKS Corporation offers a comprehensive and strong math curriculum with individualized learning tools for grades 3 - 12. ALEKS offers a flexible homeschooling curriculum and provides a complete web based educational environment for K-12 homeschooling students. |
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Roadmap to The Last Best Hope
Finding ways to make learning more relevant and engaging for students is an important component to homeschooling. When students connect to the material they are studying, they not only learn more, they understand more deeply. America: The Last Best Hope makes the history of America an interesting and exciting journey into our nation's past. |
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K12 - A Quality Curriculum for Homeschooling Families
K¹² offers a flexible, yet challenging program that gives students the freedom to explore their individual academic interests, encourages them to be independent thinkers, and gives them the skills they need to succeed; exactly what homeschoolers are looking for. |
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eScience Labs - Next Generation of Hands On Science Kits
Comprehensive and engaging lab experiment kits that homeschoolers can enjoy in a supportive environment. Standard and Advanced Placement kits are available. |
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Homeschool.com's
Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2008 |
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Citizens' High School
Distance education can offer students a more personalized, and more
convenient method of studying, which explains its increasing popularity and
the increase in available choices. Citizens' High School is one choice
supported with more than twenty years of accreditation. |
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PenPower Chinese Expert
Download the free, fully functional 14-day trial version of Penpower Chinese Expert software and see for yourself how easy it is to use! |
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A Gift for the Gifted
If you have a gifted child at home, or think you
might, we know you've asked yourself these questions countless times: What
exactly is giftedness? How can I determine if my child is gifted? What is
the best education for my gifted child? Meeting the unique educational,
emotional, and social needs of a child who is exceptionally bright can feel
intimidating. Here are some things you can do if you are raising a gifted
child. |
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The Internet Broadens the Possibilities for Homeschoolers
Kids like using the computer to learn and to develop their skills. Time4Learning's educational teaching games gives students independence as they progress at their own pace. |
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Spring Testing Schedule for Homeschoolers
Is Your Child At (Or Above) Grade Level?
Three Steps for Determining Your Own Grade Level Expectations
The Testing Season is Upon Us -- Are You Prepared? |
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The Best Holiday Sites on the Internet
Get the holiday season started with fun activities and some great opportunities to learn about familiar, and not-so-familiar, holiday traditions and history. Within many of the sites listed below are additional links with even more ideas to try. |
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The Best Educational Gifts for 2007
Looking for a last minute gift idea? A gift that is fun AND educational? Homeschool.com has been testing products these past 12 months and we've selected the following items as some of the best educational gifts for 2007. |
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 Homeschool Sports Insider Magazine
Homeschool.com would like to announce the launch of the newest Homeschooling resource, Homeschool Sports Insider magazine. Subscribe today and receive 1 issue for FREE! Exclusive savings just for Homeschool.com subscribers.
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School Districts Get Discounts - Why Not Homeschoolers?
Now we can, through the Homeschool Buyers Co-op! The Homeschool Buyers Co-op is the world's largest purchasing co-op for homeschoolers. Membership is free and confidential. |
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Little Linguists Academy Makes Learning Mandarin Chinese Fun for Children! |
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ED Anywhere - Customized and Personalized Academic Services for Students |
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Connections Academy - Tailor Your Lessons to Fit Your Child |
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Work At Your Own Pace With Ablaze Academy's LIVE Tutors |
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Penn Tutors - Convenient At-Home Tutoring With 1-on-1 Personal Tutor. |
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Homeschoolers, Create a More Balanced Life with Veria |
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47 Homeschoolers Inducted into National Honors Society! |
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Student-focused, Accredited Distance Learning with Keystone High School
Click here for a free demo of the iSchool program. |
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What If Your Child Wants to Go to School? Advice From the Experts |
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 Sevenstar
Academy
Christian Online Classes for Grades 6-12 |
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Is
Your Child At or Above Grade Level?
Here is the Transcript from our LIVE Teleseminar from Tuesday, June 5, 2007 |
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Memorization Tips for All Subjects
This Week's Action Step: Incorporate one of the these great memorization strategies into your homeschooling this week! |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
Click here to listen to Homeschool.com's 60 minute interview with Dr. Stephen Covey and learn how to create a beautiful and meaningful family mission statement for your own family. |
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Homeschool Curriculum - Time4Learning Broadens the Possibilities
Time4Learning has emerged as a leading online homeschooling program that gives parents the flexibility to easily customize programs for each child. |
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Fund-Raising Idea for Homeschooling Support Groups
Ed Anywhere's satellite program works through homeschooling groups, who enroll students in the ED Anywhere program and then receive $20 per month per student during the full enrollment of that student. |
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How to Learn a Foreign Language at Home
In this issue we interviewed David S. Clark, the creator of Learn Spanish Today, a program that emphasizes conversation, not just grammar, so that the student comes away actually being able to speak Spanish. |
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The Best Holiday Sites on the Internet
The Best Holiday Websites. |
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Homeschooling the Child Who Hates School
Homeschooling is not just for gifted students, Olympic athletes or those winning national spelling or geography bees. Homeschooling is also an excellent alternative for those students who are deemed "at-risk" of not succeeding or possibly not completing their education. |
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Homeschooling While Overseas
Everything you need to know if you want to homeschool your children while living in a country outside the United States. |
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Advice for
Homeschooling Dads
Excellent ideas on how homeschooling dads can participate in their child's
homeschooling. |
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Homeschooling the College-Bound Student
If you or your child are not sure whether or not they are ready for AP classes, students can take the Keystone Honors Readiness Test. The exam contains 16 questions and assesses a student's ability to interpret information, analyze situations, and design solutions. Read the full newsletter here. |
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Advantages of Online Learning
Read our interview with Ablaze Academy founder Nan Cullins on the advantages of taking classes over the Internet. |
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Homeschool Success Stories
Success can be measured in numerous ways and is based on individual achievements; but success takes hard work, dedication, and focus – something that homeschoolers also embrace on their own path to success. |
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Remember the Summer (and Beyond!) with a Nature Notebook
There are many reasons for creating a nature notebook but perhaps the most important is that it gives us time to reflect on nature and to enjoy our surroundings; something many of us forget to do because of our busy schedules.
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101 Things to Do This Summer |
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Honoring Their Special Needs Through Homeschooling
Our society respects adults who think differently and take risks to become our inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Often these are people who discovered inborn talents through their interests, honing them until they became very good at something others either can't do or never thought to do. |
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How to Be a
Spelling Bee Champion
Your child CAN be a Spelling Bee Champion. But where do you start? Read
Homeschool.com's latest eNewsletter and find out how. |
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But What About Socialization?
Although non-homeschoolers worry that homeschooling may turn children into social misfits, we know that the opposite is true and that POSITIVE socialization is one of the best reasons to homeschool your children. Click here to read AND listen to our hour-long interview with Diane Flynn Keith. |
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Is Your Child Ready for the World?
Take the Super Camp Quiz.
Click Here to take the quiz. |
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Kid Safe Browser Especially for Homeschoolers!
We have contacted the experts at Children's Educational Network and asked them to create a kid safe browser especially for Homeschool.com designed to protect and educate your children on the Internet. Special arrangements have been made to offer Homeschool.com subscribers FREE access to their TUKI Kid Safe Browser. Click here to learn more. |
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Organization & Time Management for Homeschoolers
Expert advice on how you can organize your home and your schedule so that it fits your family's homeschooling style. |
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Learn Speed Reading from the World's Fastest Reader!
Created exclusively for Homeschool.com.
Great for all ages. Teens can use this to finish high school in half the time.
Sign up now! |
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 BYU: Independent Study in a Supported Environment
Families wanting to use an entire high school program can enroll in one of two transcript programs offered by BYU. The transcript can then be used by college admissions offices as proof of educational background. Most colleges now require that students submit a transcript, not a diploma, as part of the college admissions process, which is beneficial to homeschoolers. |
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 Affordable Curriculum Now Available
Accredited - Online - Anytime - Anywhere - International School
- Curriculum Exceeds Nation's Highest Standards
- Live On-Line Tutors Powered By Tutor.Com
- 27 Foreign Languages By Rosetta Stone
- College Readiness Courses
- GED Preparation Classes
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 Product Testers Wanted for Reading Program
If you have a beginning reader or a child who is having some reading challenges, then you are invited to use this 10-week online reading program at no charge. Click here for more details. |
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 Homeschool.com's Top 100 Educational Websites of
the Year; Our Best List Ever!
Whether you are homeschooling full time
or helping your children after school, these sites are going to be an
incredible resource for you. |
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Consultations for GED, Special Needs, and Unhappy Students
Ed Anywhere offers curriculum for all
these areas and more. Click here to read our profile on the Ed Anywhere
curriculum. |
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Homeschool Movie
Stars Part 2
Laurel Springs provides the curriculum
for many of today's young movie & television stars and top athletes. Why? What
makes them so special? You can learn more about Laurel Springs in this week's
newsletter. |
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Homeschool Movie Stars
What do Lindsay Lohan (Herbie, Freaky Friday), Raven Symone (That's
So Raven), and Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings) have in common? It's
not a new movie or show, or a Hollywood extravaganza they were seen at... |
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Homeschooling Unit Studies Made Easy
Unit Studies are fun and easy and a great way to teach different age children at the same time. Unit Studies are also very fun to do with another homeschooling families. Click here to read more |
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College
Admissions for Homeschoolers
The college admissions process can be a stressful
one, but the good news for homeschooling students (and their parents) is that
the procedure has recently become easier and simpler, according to the
Admissions officers of Harvard and Purdue. Read their advice here. |
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