Successfully navigate the homeschooling maze! Come inside for information on the laws regulating homeschooling in Virginia, support groups, local and state events, and much, much more. We've put all the best resources and sources of information at your fingertips to make your homeschooling adventure a success.
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Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
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- Richard Mitchell |
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Knowledge Quest |
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Knowledge Quest offers historical outline maps and timelines designed for the interactive study of world history and geography.
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Home School Books & Business Association |
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Published by HSB&BA, the Home School Books & Business Association. This trade journal is designed to connect publishers of quality home school prodcuts to the retail market and promote the success of businesses serving the home school community. |
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National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network (NATHHAN) |
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NATHHAN (NATional cHallenged Homeschoolers Associated Network) is a Christian, non-profit organization dedicated to providing encouragement to families with children with special needs that are homeschooling. They publish an online or hard copy quarterly newsletter. They also publish a family directory, updated each year. They have a large lending library by operated by mail. |
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On Jumping Through Hoops |
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Helen Hegener |
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Most books and articles on home education are quick to point out that homeschooling is legal--in one form or another-- in all fifty states. Parents might have to jump through more hoops in one state than in another, but, as long as they're willing to jump through those hoops, they are allowed to teach their own children at home. But are these hoops actually necessary?
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Side Effects of Testing |
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Ann Lahrson Fisher |
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Article examines some of the dangers of using standardized tests to measure progress. The author asserts that standardized tests are narrowly focused and frequently misused comparative measurements of academic progress.
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