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Logic, Rhetoric, and Thinking Skills

Who says homeschooling has to happen at home? Most homeschoolers will tell you that they spend almost as much time out of the house as in it. Field trips are learning opportunties that offer fun ways to make every life experience a learning experience. You’ll also find tips and strategies for planning, managing, and attending field trips with your homeschool support group.

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TeenPact Leadership Schools

TeenPact is a dynamic, hands-on leadership school for Christian students. Their mission is to train youth to understand the political process, value their liberty, defend their Christian faith and engage the culture at a time in their lives when, typically, they do not care about such things. The core program consists of the State Classes offered around the country.

How to Homeschool: Determine Your Child’s Learning Style

One of the first steps you should take when embarking on homeschooling is determining your child's learning style. Most people tend towards one of the four main learning styles. This means that they are more successful in learning when the learning and teaching corresponds to this style. Few people are only one learning style, so exploring the different styles is helpful. This guide details four learning styles: kinesthetic, visual, auditory, and tactile.

The Positive Side of ADD

Why is it that so many teachers only remember or concentrate on the negative problems that ADD/ADHD kids have? Why do they always seem to recall that many have non-compliant behavior? Whether you are a teacher or a parent of an ADD/ADHD student, please take the time to learn the positive effects of this disorder also.

Bethlehem Books

Bethlehem Books is a small, home grown publishing company dedicated to restoring to children and families a treasury of wholesome, character-building literature.

Statewide Assessment: Policy Issues & Questions

This policy paper provides a list of questions that parents and parent organizations can address in an effort to ensure that statewide assessment systems fully and fairly include students with disabilities. In the past, students with disabilities have too often been excluded from large-scale assessments. However, students with disabilities now must be included in state assessment programs with appropriate accommodations, as required by the recent amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

10 Reasons to Homeschool in the Summer

These top 10 reasons for homeschooling during the summer will help you identify the advantages of year-round homeschooling. These advantages include having more days during the school year for field trips, projects, local programs, and emergencies. It also provides more routine and continuity.

Discovering Your Child’s Learning Style

Most homeschoolers can easily see that children have different learning styles. Discovering your child's learning style will help you focus on the style that suits them best, enhancing learning and reducing frustration. Your child may not share the same learning style as you do, so it is good to know other strategies to help your child learn.

Homeschooling while Single Parenting

This is a board for homeschooling single parents of all religous and secular beliefs. Members are free to discuss topics related to homeschooling and single parenting.

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Government Cafeteria?

Just suppose for a minute that in addition to our education, government officials suddenly took it into their heads to control what we eat? Some of the big wigs figured that we common ignorant folk were not capable of making good nutritious meals, so they formed a plan and with a huge chunk of our tax dollars, built government run cafeterias (Food Distribution Centers). Sound depressing? Well, take heart, because the American people would never stand for anyone telling them what they can and cannot eat. But wait a minute....isn't this exactly the approach the government has taken with education?