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There's no
way that I can give you all of the pros and cons of teaching children at home on
one small page. What I can do is to state emphatically that homeschooling
works best for us!
You don't need to become a super
Christian or copy everything that schools do in order to be homeschooling. Every good
family does some measure of educating their children at home. Mom teaches
their children to walk and talk and do chores, maybe even to read long before
school starts. There is no reason that education is totally in the hands
of the school system.
These links are mostly to further that learning
process. Some are completely about and for families whose children don't
attend school at all, but most of them can be used by anyone with the drive to
make sure their children are active, happy, and successful.
General Help
* Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
* Karl Bunday's School Is Dead, Learn in
Freedom (the site that changed my mother's mind about my homeschooling
endeavor!!!)
Michael Moy's "Homeschooling
in the News" (I really look forward to these!)
Islamic Education and
Muslim Home Schooling Resources page
Eclectic Homeschool
Family Unschoolers Network
Educational Standards
Compliance
* Developing Educational
Standards - *A Great Site* because it gives you the terminology that the
evaluators look for in plans, report cards, and etc.. (site was moved, and
I'm still looking for the new location)
HSLDA Home School Legal
Defense Association
Heavy Legal Reading
Curricula/Unit Studies and
Used Curricula (very large)
English, Science,
Music, Books
and Magazines
Autism
* Autism Research Institute Autism
Research Institute, 4182 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA 92116
Autism Society of America
Berard Method of AIT
Option Institute - Son Rise Parents who
discovered their child was autistic at 15 months (very early) and devised a
program based on their own intuitions - it is so heartwarming - I read it while
in graduate school for "light reading" a way to escape my technical
science classes for landscape architecture - I couldn't put it down.
(contributed by Nancy B)
* TEACCH Treatment and Education
of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children
College
Division of Extended
Studies at Indiana University (Degree, University and High School
information)
International
Baccalaureate Organization It's directed out of Switzerland, with curriculum
offices in the UK. The US/Caribbean offices are at: International Baccalaureate
North America, 200 Madison Avenue, Suite 2007, New York NY 10016. 212/696-4464
Fax: 212/889-9242 email
Regents College State University of NY
"Welcome to Regents College, the oldest college in the United States
devoted exclusively to the needs of adult learners. With no residency
requirement, we offer a flexible and affordable way for adults to maintain
family, work, and community obligations while earning a college degree without
leaving home. "
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