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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
http://www.hsc.org/chaos/gifted/
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This site hosts a message board to support families who homeschool by county in Michigan. It also includes many groups, such as SAGE - which specifically offers support for gifted education in the home.
http://www.homeschoolingmichigan.com/index.html
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PA Homeschoolers is a network linking homeschoolers that organizes political action, provides for communication among homeschoolers, and organizes state-wide activities including a homeschool excellence day in the Harrisburg Capitol Rotunda. This is a great site for homeschoolers and even parents of children in public or private schools. This organization has also published several books and guides, which it sells in their internet bookstore. The site also sells workbooks, educational games, math textbooks, videos, and other educational materi...
http://www.pahomeschoolers.com/
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The Texas Home School Coalition is the state support organization whose mission is to serve and protect the home school community of Texas. It provides assistance and support for families that are considering or are already homeschooling.
http://www.thsc.org/
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This organization, based in California, is interested in linking families with information and resources regarding educating a gifted child at home. They provide gifted homeschoolers with the opportunity to network and increase awareness of homeschooling as a viable educational alternative for gifted children.
http://www.giftedhomeschoolers.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 National Home Education Network exists to encourage and facilitate the vital grassroots work of state and local homeschooling groups and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level. Because we believe there is strength in a diverse network of homeschoolers, we support the freedom of all individual families to choose home education and to direct such education.
http://www.nhen.org/
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The mission of National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) is to: produce high-quality research on home-based education; serve as a clearinghouse of research for homeschoolers, researchers, and policy makers; educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education. NHERI's forte is in the realm of research, statistics, technical reports, data, facts, demographics, the academic world, consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness while serving people ranging from researchers and policy makers to professio...
http://www.nheri.org/index.php?menu=1
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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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This group strives to create a forum for gifted and talented homeschooled students to interact with their intellectual peers. Support for parents on education and skills development of gifted students is also provided. While the group does not meet regularly, contact with the group leader is encouraged when seeking information.
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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 online school is a private online learning center with a rolling admissions policy. Founded in 1982, CALCampus offers courses and certificate programs for support for homeschooling on the secondary level, and support for high school and postsecondary study. The High School Division offers a Diploma Program which has its own admissions policies. CALCampus High School is nationally accredited by the National Association of Private Schools and is a candidate for accreditation by the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditatio...
http://www.calcampus.com/
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Carolina Biological Supply Co. provides supplies, educational resources and lab aids for the instruction of math and science. Sections of the site include; Worlds of Science such as, Anthropology and Archaeology, Biotechnology and Genetics, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Ecology, K-6 Science, Mathematics, Physics, Software, etc.
http://www.carolina.com
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GSN is a provider of Virtual Curriculum ideal for homeschool students and families. Delivered entirely over the internet, this curriculum for grades 2-12 is deeply rooted in the National Academic Content Standards.Global Virtual Curriculum offers a complete, affordable, and comprehensive on-line education solution.
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 series of workbooks, published by Key Curriculum Press, is targeted at K-6 homeschooled students. The material is not specifically designed for the gifted, but students can utilize advanced grade materials. As part of the coursework, students build models for concepts to prepare them for written work.
http://www.keypress.com/x6252.xml
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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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Aphelion is an intensive learning environment facilitated by the Internet. Students work from home or wherever they can access the net. Our first student continued her work when she was at home in Niagara or visiting in Toronto. Much of the student's studies takes place away from the computer. Books, video and experimentation are an important part of "multimedia" learning.
http://www.charismagics.com/aphelion/main.html
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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 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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"Froguts officially started in the Spring of 2001 after Richard Hill developed the first frog simulation for a graduate project. As froguts grew in acclaim, and costs mounted, it became apparent to us that we needed to establish a company in order to continue developing quality education modules." They offer their laboratory maintenance and specimen purchase products to schools, and to individuals in the privacy of their home.
http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html
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Choose from the Family Edition, Homeschool Edition or School Edition to enrich the educational programs in your school or family setting. 16 art lessons from the award-winning art education in geeART16 include a glossary of terms, gallery of art and a section to build a personal portfolio. Interactive quizzes measure students' knowledge and allow them to collect rewards.
http://www.geeguides.com/store/
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The primary focus of this non-profit organization is to provide science enrichment classes to underserved and at-risk youth. Rock-It Science offers three programs:
1. In-Class Instruction 2. Summer Programs and Camps 3. Homeschool Science Classes
Rock-It Science's work in underserved schools has been made possible through supporting grantsfrom a variety of foundations and generous donations from numerous individual donors.
http://www.rockitscience.com/
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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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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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Started in 2003 this coeducational public cyber school for K-8 grade students began to provide a new form of public school that students can attend from home. This is a free program that combines the strong parental involvement of homeschooling, the expertise and accountability of publicly funded education, and the flexibility of online classes. Parents pay no tuition for students to attend CCA. Students are considered to be enrolled in a public school and receive the loan of a desktop computer and a printer. Students are required to take all s...
http://www.connectionsacademy.com/state/home.asp?sid=pa
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The NAG is an online nationally accredited K-12 private school. Offering 120+ accredited, multimedia-rich courses, a giftedness assessment program, and high school diplomas, The National Academy for the Gifted uses cutting-edge technology to bring private gifted education into the home for the first time. The learning process at The National Academy for the Gifted is asynchronous. Courses offered allow students to advance academically as far and quickly as they are able throughout the year. Unbound by grade levels or rigid guidelines, gifted ...
http://www.thenationalacademyforthegifted.org/
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This organization helps parents provide a customized learning plan for their gifted Prek-12 homeschooled child. Curriculum and method of instruction are not stipulated. Recommendations are made for a complete classical curriculum. Courses may be compacted, enriched, or skipped according to the abilities of the student.
http://www.westbridgeacademy.com/
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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 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.
http://www.mhla.org/support/masupportgroups.htm
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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 included non-tra...
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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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Berquist's book provides a direct, clear explication of materials, books, and schedules to select when implementing a classical homeschooling program for each grade, K through 12. Specific recommended materials, books, and subjects are provided. This book has a Catholic emphasis, but the suggested Catholic materials can easily be replaced with secular or Protestant materials if desired.
http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=701&SKU=DYO-P&ReturnURL=search.aspx%3f%3fSID%3d1%26SearchCriteria%3dcurriculum
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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 comprehensive guide from Vincent Kiernan, provides students, teachers, and educators with a road map to the rapidly expanding field of online high schools. Math, Science, History, English and even physical education - name the course, and this book will help you find it online
http://www.slpl.org/slpl/interests/article240065144.asp#
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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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