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Homeschooling with Unit Studies

Homeschooling through the teenage/high school years offers several different challenges. You may need to meet specific requirements and you may find that you are teaching subjects with which you are not familiar. In addition, many parents don’t begin homeschooling until their child reaches high school age. To help navigate this sometimes new territory, we’ve put together helpful resources to help both parent and student successfully homeschool during the high school years.

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The Privacy Advantages of Homeschooling

This academic paper exposes the expansion of information gathering and dissemination via the United States public school system and facilitates parental choices on how best to educate their children if privacy issues are a concern. Privacy is fundamentally the omission of outside interference; therefore, in attempting to demonstrate the privacy advantages of homeschooling, this work, for the most part, proves a negative by comparatively cataloging how much privacy is denied, or potentially denied, when students attend public schools. It then compares and contrasts students’ legal requirements regarding the types of information students must provide to government educational institutions and the information public schools and homeschools must or may gather or release. Finally, it examines homeschooling’s legal foundations and regulatory issues. and postulates challenges facing the future of homeschooling’s privacy advantages.

So, You Want to Play College Ball?

Good news for homeschoolers who want to receive NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) scholarships and participate in college sports! Homeschoolers have finally been recognized as high school graduates by the NCAA. Homeschool students no longer have to go through the “waiver process,” but can now register in the same manner as “traditionally schooled” graduates.

Easy Fun School

As opposed to many other sites offer online resources and lesson plans, Easy Fun School is designed with the homeschooling parent and child in mind. Through the subject index, you will find lesson plans and ideas for teaching art, holidays, reading, science, writing, unit studies, state studies, and much more.

Beyond Statistics: A Real Look At Black Homeschoolers

In the past couple of years the news has been inundated with national, international and local articles reporting the dramatic rise of homeschooling in the African-American community. Although we often get statistics about Black homeschoolers, we rarely get a glimpse of real families. This article takes you into the lives of Black homeschooling families who are taking their children's education into their own hands.

Starting Charlotte Mason from Scratch

Looking for ways to implement the methods of Charlotte Mason into your home education? Wondering how to make it all work? This video features Sonya Shafer discussing the best approaches to implementing Mason's ideas and strategies into your homeschooling. It doesn't have to be hard! This video has tips that are useful for both new homeschoolers and those who have been at it for years.

The Why of Homeschool

Focusing on homeschooling and the media, Isabel Lyman's doctoral dissertation analysis of over 300 newspaper and magazine articles revealed that the top four reasons to bypass conventional schooling were dissatisfaction with the public schools, the desire to freely impart religious values, academic excellence, and the building of stronger family bonds.