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The HomeSchool Association of California:
- Honors the diversity of homeschoolers
- Supports and promotes the entire spectrum of homeschooling
- Provides information
- Monitors and influences legislation
- Offers opportunities for families to get together
- Empowers families to make the choices that respect the rights, needs, and aspirations of their children
HSC welcomes anyone with an interest in homeschooling
http://www.hsc.org/chaos/gifted/
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Calvert is an actual private school in Baltimore, MD. offering a homeschool curriculum. Their complete course packages are balanced and coordinated allowing home schooling parents to spend the majority of their time educating their children, rather than researching subjects or writing lesson plans. Through creative presentations and clever games, learning can be fun, yet challenging. The classes utilizes fundamentals, reinforced through repeated drills and ample free time to encourage the independent development of the student. The goal is to h...
http://www.calvertschool.org/
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The Great Books Academy is a complete, nursery through 12th grade, classical, liberal arts homeschool program. Course options include books and Lesson Plans for: Art, Cartography, Geography, Language Arts, Literature, Math, Music, Philosophy, Science, History, Foreign Languages and online Socratic discussions. Our graduates have the option of testing for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree by the Great Books University College.
http://www.greatbooksacademy.org
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This distance learning program through the University of Nebraska, Lincoln serves homeschool organizations as well as individual students who wish to be fully accredited wtih a high school diplomia while completing independent study. Students can complete a 4-year high school diploma with the curriculum available or can use the offered courses to supplement their current curriculum.
http://dcs.unl.edu/ishs/
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"NARS is a private school offering credentials to homeschoolers for their high school work.
We are a state-recognized school offering to evaluate the coursework of high school students (and adults), and upon adequate documentation and evidence, we grant high school credits for homeschool work.
We are an actual school which allows homeschoolers to transfer their homeschool work into our school. And, when a student has accumulated all required 17-1/2 credits, they are eligible to receive a high school diploma.
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http://www.narsdiploma.com/
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The University of Vermont welcomes applications from home-schooled students; we recognize that these students can bring a unique perspective to the classroom.
We do require documentation that shows what the student's home-school curriculum has covered. Students must meet all entrance requirements for the University, including four years of English, three years of mathematics through intermediate algebra, two years of science, including a laboratory science, two years of the same foreign language, and three years of social science....
http://www.uvm.edu/
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This is a home school cooperative. There are a variety of classes offered for children ranging from foreign language to geography. Classes meet once or twice per week and are led by parents, professionals and/or students.
www.voyagersinc.org
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HSLDA works on national and state levels to advocate for parental freedoms, especially the rights of parents to direct their children's educations. It provides legal support to members free of charge. HSLDA provides a wide array of services to the homeschool community.
http://www.hslda.org
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The Quaqua Protégé Award recognizes the most outstanding college-bound home-educated students in the world. As funds permit, other general and talent-specific awards are also given.
http://www.quaqua.org
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Quaqua assists homeschool educators around the world to interact, showcase their achievements, receive financial aid, build friendships, obtain career assistance, and help the general public to appreciate the benefits derived from personal and secular rights.
http://www.quaqua.org
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Pocono Area Gifted Homeschoolers (PAGH) strives to create a forum for gifted and talented homeschooled students to interact with their intellectual peers. Parental support, education and skills development as educators of gifted students are also endeavors.
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Homeschooling a gifted child can sometimes be challenging. Some homeschooling groups welcome gifted children, but others seem less comfortable with the disparity between a gifted child's age and abilities. Working together, we can pool our resources, share our stories, and give our kids the chance to socialize and have fun with kids like them -- not just with kids as old as they are.
http://www.angelfire.com/ab8/nevadagifted/
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This brief article discusses the reasons why an exceptionally gifted child may need to homeschool, and the arrangements that need to be made to accommodate extreme asynchronous development in a homeschooling program.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/asynchrony.htm
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This article, by Tracy Staedter, discusses the growing debate of Home Schooling.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/issue/news_feature_school.asp?p=0
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This article focuses on the benefits of obtaining a high school diploma online. The author makes reference to some of the positives, including the anonymity and the flexibility of time and place. He also touches on some the skills necessary and what to expect if one does enter an online high school diploma program.
http://adulted.about.com/cs/finishhighschool/a/onlineHS.htm
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This website features Chapter 1 of Cohen's book, "And What About College?" plus numerous other links that will be extremely helpful to homeschoolers considering college admissions, no matter what their age. Included are samples of homeschoolers' admissions essays; a list of the most- and least-homeschool-friendly colleges in terms of the admissions process; discussion and bulletin boards; links to diploma and independent study programs; links to The College Board and other organizations; and a series of articles on homeschooling teens.
http://www.homeschoolteenscollege.net/
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This short article discusses why homeschooling often fits the unique educational needs of the highly gifted. "Home schooling in the United States has shown steady growth over the past decade (Lines, 1991). We do not know precisely how much of this growth involves highly gifted children."
http://www.crosswalk.com/family/home_school/512678.html
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This article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discusses the topic of home schooling and how it is becoming more and more mainstream for families across the globe.
http://www.stltoday.com
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This interview with Andrew Wyeth gives insight into his homeschooling as an artist in his father's studio, beginning at age 7.
http://www.nfgcc.org/51.htm
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This parent walks the reader through her initial thoughts and concerns about homeschooling. "We began exploring homeschooling more in depth when we saw the disaster that school was becoming for our son. I remember our biggest stumbling block to homeschooling was my worry that I didn't have the personality to homeschool... or rather, I didn't have the personality that most people think you need to homeschool when they don't homeschool themselves."
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/home_schooling.htm
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This About.com article provides many helpful hints for those beginning a home school curriculum. Author Beverly Hernandez has included a number of links for resources related to home schooling and education in general. Both beginners and experienced home schoolers should find this a useful resource.
http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/gettingstarted/a/homeschool101.htm
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From the article, "During the last 20 years, increasing numbers of families in the United States have chosen to educate their children at home or outside the conventional school environment. Current estimates range from 500,000 to 1.2 million students (Lines, 1991, 1995; Ray, 1996). Of that number, a significant percentage of families have chosen homeschooling as the educational option for their gifted children."
http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-2/gifted.htm
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Global Student Network, LLC (GSN) is a U.S. based corporation established to deliver front line educational curriculum services to students attending Homeschool, Charter, Public, Private and International schools.
Global Student Network's mission is to provide alternative educational options, designed to improve the academic preparation, achievement and general well being of non-traditionally oriented elementary, middle and high school age students
http://www.globalstudentnetwork.com/
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This website is an excellent source of information for the homeschool community. The Home School Resource Center section contains teaching materials, helpful articles and other resources. The Home Business Resource Center section teaches children how to start their own family businesses. Home School Marketplace also provides e-newsletters, product reviews, recommendations and much more!
http://www.elijahcompany.com/help/index2.htm
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This computer program is a full-featured homeschool planner for creating homeschool records and lesson plans. This program does much more than just create printed forms -- it is a database that uses your lesson plan inputs to automatically create assignment sheets, progress reports, report cards, transcripts, and more. It applies the grading scale of your choice and uses your own customized school year calendar. HomeSchool Easy Records also uses your time-and-attendance inputs to automatically track cumulative hours in each subject, days atten...
http://www.dataplus.biz/HER/
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A homeschooling father developed this internet online reporting to help minimize the administrative burden of reporting. This site is designed to help schools and families meet their reporting requirements in a fun and efficient manner.
http://www.homeschoolreporting.com/
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This website was created to empower parents to create the ideal school for their child at home! Homeschool.com's founding principal is to consistently provide resources, information, and support to all homeschooling families. Homeschooling is poised for explosive growth, and with that growth comes the responsibility to embrace the incredible diversity of families that choose to homeschool. Homeschool.com supports each family's unique approach to preparing their children for success! Explore Homeschool.com and let us help you... from getting st...
http://www.homeschool.com/
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This audio tape of a Hollingsworth Conference session offers first-hand accounts of homeschooling from the perspective of five homeschooling parents. They discuss how and why they made the decision to home school and they discuss their college admission experience at length. The session is moderated by Kathleen Julicher.
http://www.fltwood.com/onsite/hollingworth/
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This website on homeschooling provides several articles ranging from gifted child development to special needs children. There are articles with religious slants as well as secular issues. Numerous print resources on various issues regarding homeschooling are provided.
http://www.homeschoolzone.com
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This distance learning resource by Pennsylvania Homeschoolers provides online AP courses for homeschool students. These courses are designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement tests in particular curriculum areas. The courses includes a lot of interaction between teacher and students.
http://www.pahomeschoolers.com/courses
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RainbowResource.com is a family owned, on-line store, with catalogue, for homeschoolers everywhere. Our mission is to provide quality educational materials to home school families and private schools. Their hefty catalog (396 pages) is full of educational supplies, spanning all academic areas, plus more. There are many, many resources for each subject area, science supplies and kits, arts and crafts supplies, educational games, etc.
http://www.rainbowresource.com
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Sonlight Curriculum is more than a company. It is more than a curriculum. It is a community as well. Sonlight offers products to effectively teach homeschoolers. Items include instructor's guides, student activity sheets and study guides. Purchases can be made through the online catalog, or a printed catalog can be requested.
http://www.sonlight.com/index.html
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This website contains a wide variety of information, including links to the state departments of education pages with content standards. There are also various resource links and helpful hints on how to best use content standards in regards to homeschooling. There is also a section devoted to homeschooling gifted children.
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/index.htm
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This website was created by a homeschool educator of an ADHD child. Carol's Web Corner is dedicated to Teaching and Seeing the Gift in Your Highly Distractible Child. The website contains teaching tips, frequently asked questions, Carol's book, tapes & resources, and more.
http://www.westfieldacademy.org/adhd/
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This website is one of the best resources on the Internet for those who are using a challenging classical homeschooling approach with their children. Included are numerous articles describing the stages of classical education and curriculum suggestions for each stage; an online catalog providing easy links for ordering classical homeschooling curriculum materials; a frequently-asked questions section; a large collection of internet curriculum links; an art history index; a very helpful page of Latin curriculum reviews that will help a family or...
http://www.classicalhomeschooling.org/
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This website contains classic examples of art from various eras of Western civilization, with many links to other art history sites.
http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/modern.html
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This website contains information and many useful homeschool forms printables for those who are educating children. The print-outs are in two formats, Adobe Acrobat and Rich Text Format. You will need the Acrobat Reader to open the Acrobat files. The Rich Text Format files can be opened with Microsoft Word and possibly with WordPerfect.
http://donnayoung.org/index.htm
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This website includes a list of "online schools, correspondence schools, and other suppliers of stand alone curriculum. It does not include information about the broad array of high school level curriculum available to homeschoolers."
http://eho.org/
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This site, for home educators, offers online lessons in English, Math, Science, Art, Humanities,and Languages of various elementary levels. In addition this UK site provides links to other sites which contain homeschool resources.
http://www.home-education-resources.co.uk/
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Homeschooldads.com is a website geared specifically for fathers who homeschool their children. This website has homeschool articles, homeschool resources, a homeschool bookstore, and message boards.
http://www.homeschooldads.com/
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This online curriculum resource was developed by Charity Lovelace, a homeschooling mother. She has made available on this site unit studies she has written herself, plus links to more than 300 unit studies posted elsewhere on the Internet. Most unit studies are complete with curriculum goals and objectives, lists of required materials and readings, and evaluation procedures. An amazing resource for new and veteran homeschooling families; particularly appropriate for gifted children, since many of the units incorporate interdisciplinary approach...
http://www.angelfire.com/mo/sassafrassgrove/homeschool/unit_studies.html
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This website by The College Board provides helpful information and links for homeschoolers preparing for college admission. Although designed for those applying for college at the traditional age, the information may be even more critical for those interested in full time early college admission. Links are included to relevant information and materials.
http://www.collegeboard.com/homepage/0,1158,,00.html
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This website for A Beka offers three homeschool options for families: A DVD program, a traditional parent-directed option, and textbooks/materials for homeschoolers. The program is a producy of Pensacola Christian College.
http://www.abeka.org/
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The author, "Anonymous," is the mother of a profoundly gifted boy whom she decided not to send to the local elementary school, but to educate at home instead. This book is the mother's side of the correspondence between herself and the principal, explaining why she was not enrolling her child in a conventional school. "Anonymous" traces in painstaking detail the educational development of her profoundly gifted son between the ages of six and nine, as she uses a child-directed method of learning.
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This book by S. Scheffer looks at the lack of a "crisis of confidence" in homeschooled adolescent girls, compared with other girls in more traditional school settings. Several of the girls interviewed for this study are intellectually or artistically gifted.
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The story of homeschooled profoundly gifted kid Michael who went to kindergarten at 3 and graduated from high school in only one year at the age of six. He graduated from college at 10; holds four Guinness World Records; recently graduated with a Master's Degree in Chemistry at 14.
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This book documents the home education of a musically talented, highly intellectually gifted child, from the perspective of her father. An interesting, detailed account of the child's musical development within the context of the total educational program is included. This book stresses the use of the community as an educational resource, and is an excellent example of how to do this.
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This is a helpful, practical guide to college admissions for homeschoolers, especially those who may not have had a "typical" program or sequence of study (including unschoolers or early college entrants). Cohen describes and provides examples of how to translate interdisciplinary homeschooling curriculum and apprenticeship experiences into a high school transcript, and de-mystifies the college admissions process.
Highly recommended, especially as a guide to developing a transcript for students whose homeschooling programs have in...
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This book chronicles one year in the life of a homeschooling family with two profoundly gifted children. It is written by a mother who decided to remove her son from school after a disastrous early experience and used an unschooling approach to teach her children at home. Both children are accomplished musicians.
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This book is a comprehensive guide to homeschooling. It includes features on reasons to homeschool, record keeping, curriculum resources, how to get started, college preparation, social and emotional issues, and much more. It also includes a chapter on homeschooling your twice exceptional child.
http://www.giftedbooks.com/bk0910707480.html
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This book discusses how a public high school English teacher homeschooled his own children. It touches on the primarily child-led curriculum he used, the reluctance of his peers to accept his choice to homeschool, and the common question of socialization. He makes a strong argument about why homeschooling makes sense through research as well as example.
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This book features descriptions of daily life in the homeschools of a number of African American and biracial families. Several of the vignettes include homeschools with extremely gifted children. The volume provides an excellent perspective on what it's really like to homeschool, day in and day out, with bright, curious children.
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This chapter reviews the history of the homeschooling movement among families with gifted children, explores some of the reasons families of gifted children choose homeschooling as an educational alternative, reviews the way giftedness can unexpectedly impact legal issues, curriculum development, and socialization in the homeschool, and looks ahead at the future of homeschooling gifted children.
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Home Education Magazine is one of the oldest, most respected, and most informative magazines on the subject of homeschooling. Each issue offers the very best interviews, feature articles, regular columns, political commentary and analysis, news reporting and more! Home Education Magazine is owned and operated by our second-generation homeschooling family. We understand homeschooling because we are homeschoolers. Our five children, ages 15 to 28, have always been homeschooled. In 1983 we began publishing Home Education Magazine for homeschooling...
http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/issue_index.html
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