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New to Homeschooling? Begin Reading
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- Beginning to Homeschool
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire
-- W. B. Yeats
- Start With Where You Are
- What is Homeschooling?
- Why Homeschool?
- First Comes Mom
- Homeschooling Families
- Planning the Best Homeschooling Education
Finishing Touches
Portfolios
Creating homeschool portfolios for personal use or for getting into college.
Graduation From Homeschool
From unschoolers' commencements to formal cap and gown ceremonies,
homeschool families mark this transition in unique and creative ways.
Transcripts
Help interpreting your home education high school-level work to make into transcripts
for college applications.
New Book for Homeschool Co-op Members and Leaders
What to Know Before You Join a Homeschool Co-op - 5/13/08
Carol Topp discusses some of the disadvantages of co-oping.
What Next for California Homeschoolers?
California Decision Vacated - 4/28/08
The In re Rachel L. decision handed down by the Court of Appeal of the State of California, has been vacated. California homeschooling back to normal.
A to Z Home's Cool Goes Solar
A to Z Now Produced by Sunbeams - 4/20/08
Our homeschool internet business goes Green. Solar panels installed April 2008. Other green improvements.
Public Relations Basics
The Homeschooling Image: Public Relations Basics - 4/7/08
A free ebook version of Mary Griffith's The Homeschooling Image: Public Relations Basics, originally published in 1996. Updated in 2008. Pass it along to those in your support groups. Mary not only explains about talking with the press and to radio talk show hosts, but also the ins and outs of putting on a workshop or being part of a conference. It also could help the ordinary new homeschool mom just trying to explain what she's doing to her mother-in-law or the grocery clerk!
Testing Time for Some Homeschool Families
Validity of high stakes standardized test requirements for homeschoolers: a psychometric analysis NEW
After considering the psychometric evidence, I conclude that current and proposed high stakes standardized requirements for homeschoolers are baseless. Policies based on such requirements are a waste of taxpayer dollars and a needless imposition on homeschooling families. By Nicky Hardenbergh.
Testing Homeschoolers
Requirements Compared
Holding Children Accountable
Should We Test?
Testing Services
Where do homeschoolers get curriculum?
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Those designing their own custom homeschooling program will like these.
- See what our Top 10 Homeschool Books have for curriculum ideas!
These are our top selling homeschooling books, essential for your home library. Updated Quarterly.
- Check our Curriculum Shopping
section for advice, tips, and homeschool-friendly vendors.
- Check our A2Z Homeschooling Classifieds,
especially when cleaning out your old home education curriculum.
- Look online for homeschooling curriculum, games, books, and toys.
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Homeschool Uniforms????
Homeschool T-Shirts and more
Show your pride in your homeschool lifestyle! Whether you are visiting your legislator, or just meeting homeschool friends at the park, wear a homeschool t-shirt or hoodie. Carry your books in a homeschool-themed tote or messenger bag. On your car, promote homeschooling with a bumpersticker or license frame. Write in a homeschool journal. Drink from a homeschool mug!
Spring 2008 Homeschool Prom Announcements
Proms for Homeschoolers
Updated for Winter & Spring 2008! Send your information in as soon as possible! I will format as close as possible to how you send it, within the limits of this format. Each prom announcement must have at least one way of making online contact with the organizers... website url or email address.
10,100 Teachers Layed Off. Let's Hire Them!
Help the 10,100 Fired Teachers in California - 3/17/08
If we enfold these teachers into our midsts, let them see that we are fairly wise families with really nice kids, we could wind up with a huge resource of supportive people willing to help us out should our own current political problems grow worse.
For Teachers Who Want to Tutor
You've been "pink slipped." How do you enter the homeschool market?
Homeschooling and Sports
Why Can't Homeschoolers Play on School Sports Teams? - 2/15/08
Years ago there were major problems with ringers, or players who weren't qualified, playing on teams in league sports.
Knowledge is a product of thinking, not of memorizing.
Welcome to college. Now start an argument.
Of all the advantages homeschoolers have over their public school friends, none exceeds their better understanding of the purpose of scholarship. By Stephen Combs.
Feature Articles
We've got Chats!
Come enjoy our homeschooling chats in our A2Z Homeschool Chat Room. This page has our hosted chat schedule, when your favorite homeschool moms are in there to answer questions. Do not worry! This chat application is so easy anybody can use it! Sign in with any name or screen name you'd like. No registration. Nothing to download. Click on the "?" to get tips on using the features.
Cool Firefox Trick
Just type in the site name!
Did you know you can type in "A to Z Home's Cool" (without the quotes - or even spelled wrong - like "A to Z Homeschool")
in the space where you normally put the url, and not try to have to
remember "http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com" let alone try to type
it, and you'll go directly to this site! This works on Mac, Windows, and Linux versions of the Firefox browser.
How many Homeschoolers are There in the USA?
Numbers of Homeschoolers
Charts and data showing 2007 estimated numbers, based on the more realistic decline in the rate of growth. The rate is still positive, and just reflects the overall slowing of the birth rate and numbers of school aged children in general.
Homeschooling Costs Too Much
Truly Free K12 Homeschooling - 8/23/07
How to have a totally free K12 homeschool experience online and off.
Free Homeschool Planner and Recording Spreadsheet for 2007 -2008
My Excel
spreadsheet planning template for the homeschool year 2007 - 2008. Plan and track your curriculum used, educational projects, books read, and more. For more information
about this planner and other available homeschooling planners,
please visit my Homeschooling Records and Reports page.
New Pages
Draft of DC Homeschool Laws
This is the PROPOSED education code for Washington D.C. that was posted on the State Superintendent of Education website on February 29, 2008. Responses requested in the following 30 days.
Washington DC Homeschooling
BrainPOP for Homeschoolers
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Buddhist Homeschooling NEW
Sources for Buddhist educational material and homeschooling support. Articles by homeschooling Buddhist families.
Religious Homeschooling
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