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The Complete Home Learning Source Book : The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject from arithmetic - Rebecca Rupp's Winning Guide: This exhaustive and comprehensive 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:

Homeschooling for Excellence - David and Micki Colfax provide a step-by-step manual for people who want to educate their children at home, written by two former educators who taught all three of their own sons at home--and saw them accepted at Harvard! An invaluable sourcebook for improving a child's education.

The Homeschooling Handbook : From Preschool to High School, a Parent's Guide - As many as two million parents now educate their children at home, and many more are considering the idea. This non-ideological book examines the pros and cons, discusses how to handle regulations, and shows how to design and implement a productive learning atmosphere at home for students of all ages.

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom - Unschooling, a by-product of the widespread homeschooling movement, is a unique approach to education--one that uses children's natural curiosity to propel them into a world of learning. This practical guides reveals the secrets of unschooling success even as it addresses the misconceptions and criticism unschoolers may encounter.

The Homeschooling Book of Answers : The 88 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices - There are over 1.2 million children being taught at home. Their parents, however, lack the support and help most parents receive from their kids' school. As a result, homeschooling parents hunger for answers to the most frequently recurring questions. Linda Dobson provides those answers here by enlisting the help of the 40 most respected names in the field.

Family Matters : Why Homeschooling Makes Sense - Guterson teaches his neighbors' kids in his high school classroom, but he and his wife teach their own children at home. This honest, perceptive discussion of children, families, education, and our common life as a nation scruntinizes school life, and investigates the inexhaustible opportunities for learning outside it.

And What About College? : How Homeschooling Can Lead to Admissions to the Best Colleges & Universities - How the author helped her two homeschooled children apply and get accepted to the colleges of their choice. Useful ideas for everyone thinking about college, but especially for those with nontraditional educations. Appendixes include actual transcripts, cover letters, ideas for creating and reporting curricula, pointers for applying to a military academy, and more!

The Home School Manual : Plans, Pointers, Reasons and Resources, 7th ed. - An excellent handbook covering all significant aspects of home education, yet in a practical and readable form. It's also: * A winner of the Parent's Choice Award. * Among the top 10 picks of Home Education Radio * Authoratative Dr. Wade is joined by some 45 other authors. * Comprehensive. How and what to teach. 62 chapters, 26 appendices, and 17 forms to copy * Christian perspective although appreciated by non-Christians, too.

Christian Home Educators' Curriculum Manual 1997-98 : Elementary Grades - The premiere guide for choosing homeschool curriculum for grades K-6. For beginners or veterans, Cathy helps you wade through the curriculum jungle to choose what's right for each of your children. Reviews of hundreds of books, games, videos, computer programs, parent helps, and much, much more for all subjects.

Beyond Facts and Flashcards : Exploring Math With Your Kids - With this book's engaging games and activities, parents can help develop their children's mathematical literacy. Beyond Facts and Flashcards emphasizes the importance of math in daily life and shows how to incorporate it into busy schedules. It offers tools to understand and foster the skills necessary to encourage children's successful math learning.

Beyond Survival : A Guide to Abundant-Life Homeschooling - Wouldn't you love to sit down with an experienced homeschooling mom and pick her brain? Beyond Survival gives you the preparation and working plan for a successful homeschooling experience. With confidence and compassionate humor, Diana Waring leads you on a joy-filled educational journey.

Survivor's Guide to Home Schooling - A Survivor's Guide to Home Schooling offers practical suggestions, support, and encouragement for those who have undertaken to teach their children at home-- all in light of Scriptural guidelines.

Family Learning : How to Help Your Children Succeed in School by Learning at Home - Enthusiastic reviews by Home Education Magazine, The Homeschool Exchange, Christian Home and School, and The Conservative Book Club have made FAMILY LEARNING a favorite among homeschooling families across the country. Here's what Jim Trelease, author of THE READ-ALOUD HANDBOOK, had to say about the book: "Every year a new round of 'home education' books arrive--some good, some awful, a few very good. As far as I'm concerned, this one--FAMILY LEARNING, by William F. Russell--is the very best in a good many years. The price of this book is the best tuition you may ever pay."

The Future of Home Schooling : A New Direction for Christian Home Education - A home schooling expert shows how to decide if home schooling is right for your family. Already home schooling? Learn how to get better results in less time. Every parent is a "home educator". Even if home schooling is not for you, learn how to enhance the education your child is getting in school.

Home Schooling from Scratch : Simple Living - Super Learning - Author Mary Kenyon believes the best things in your children's education are not the same as the expensive things. She explains: * the basics of simple home schooling * how to decide what is really needed * how to find or create materials and opportunities for less money * how to organzie the whole household for a tight grip on the purse strings.

Good Stuff : Learning Tools for All Ages - This popular resource guide covers every subject area that schools do, and many more that they don't. Ms. Rupp's descriptions are succinct, valuable, and clear. her wide-ranging and eclectic selections of learning materials for all ages are valuable to all parents and teachers willing to consider something more than testbooks for learning. All listings are updated and reindexed for 1997

Trust the Children : A Manual and Activity Guide for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning - In Trust the Children, Anna Kealoha provides parents and teachers with a wide range of activities and approaches to teaching a comprehensive list of subjects, from "Addition" to "Zoology," with an emphasis on creative art, music, and natural science, as well as the more traditional school curricula. Throughout the text, Kealoha emphasizes fostering a love of learning and self-motivation.

new additions, April 2001  - these have come up again as worthwhile resources ...

A Guide to Homeschooling for Librarians (Highsmith Press Handbook Series) - by David C. Brostrom

The Home Environment and School Learning : Promoting Parental Involvement in the Education of Children (The Jossey-Bass Education) - by Thomas Kellaghan, Kathryn Sloane, Benjamin Alvarez

Big Book Of Home Learning Volume 1 Getting Started: Introduces All Major Home School Methods And Answers Your Most Frequently Asked Questions; Pride, Mary

Classical Education And The Home School; Wilson, Douglas

Early Years At Home: When Life Patterns Are Set: Adapted From The Home School Manual; Wade, Theodore E.

Gotcha! Strategy Games for Math and Logic (Home School Basics); Gaskins, Denise

Guidance Manual For The Christian Home School: A Parents Guide To Preparing Home School Students For College Or Career; Callihan, David

Home School Detectives #02 Mystery Of The Missing Microchips; Bibee, John

Home School Detectives 1-4; Bibee, John

Home School Manual; Wade, Theodore E.

Home School Market Guide; Williams, Jane A.

Home School Sourcebook; Reed, Donn/ Reed, Jean

How To Home School: A Practical Approach; Graham, Gayle

How To Write A Low Cost No Cost Curriculum For Your Home School Child; Hendrickson, Borg

Peace Within Your Borders: Devotions For Home School Teachers; Sharpton, Beth

Right To Home School: A Guide To The Law On Parents Rights In Education; Klicka, Christopher J.

Sacred Foundation: The Importance Of Strength In The Home School Marriage; Farris, Michael

Should I Home School?: How To Decide Whats Right For You & Your Child; Hamilton, Elizabeth

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