Links in Alphabetical Order

American Homeschool Association http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/
The American Homeschool Association (AHA), is a service organization sponsored in part by the publishers of Home Education Magazine. The AHA was created in 1995 to network homeschoolers on a national level. Current AHA services include an online news and discussion list which provides news, information, and resources for homeschoolers, media contacts, and education officials.

Association of HomeSchool Attorneys http://www.ahsa-usa.org/main.php
AHSA is an informal network of attorneys and legal experts in the United States supporting homeschooling and homeschoolers by providing legal information about homeschooling issues, empowering homeschoolers to have the legal tools they need to meet homeschooling challenges, and providing a network of attorneys for legal representation.

Education: The Learning of Skills We Will Never Need? http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/
Car Talk's Tom Magliozzi's thoughts on education.

Hoagie's Page http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/investigations.htm
Includes links to individual lesson plans and lesson plan collections, as well links to free online high school courses.

Holt - GWS http://www.holtgws.com/

Home Education Magazine http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/
Home Education Magazine is one of the oldest, most respected, and most informative magazines on the subject of homeschooling.

Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream, 2nd edition by Patrick Basham, John Merrifield, and Claudia Hepburn, A Fraser Institute Occasional Paper http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/Commerce.Web/product_files/Homeschooling.pdf

Home Schooling Goes Mainstream by Milton Gaither, Education Next, Winter 2009. v. 9, n. 1. http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/34685614.html

Home schooling improves academic performance and reduces impact of socio-economic factors
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/newsandevents/news/4933.aspx

Home Schooling Special Needs in Massachusetts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschoolingspecialneedsMA/
A support group for parents homeschooling their children with special needs. We are an inclusive group, supporting one another in decisions regarding traditional and alternative homeschooling and other therapies helpful to our children. Our children are as unique as the ways we homeschool them!

Homeschool Social Register http://www.homeschoolmedia.net/register/
In addition to finding local homeschoolers, check out The Homeschool Wiki at this site, the main purpose of which is to inform people about the most painless way to satisfy the bureaucratic requirements for homeschooling legally in that area. This has the potential to be a great resource, depending on individuals' taking a couple minutes to make an entry for their town.

Homeschool CPA http://www.homeschoolcpa.com/
Helping homeschool organizations obtain non-profit status.

INHARMONY Homeschool Network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/INHARMONYHomeschoolNetwork/
A Yahoo network for homeschoolers in MA who are inspired by Nature and who strive to live IN HARMONY... with each other and with the Earth. All topics are allowed.

Jon's Homeschool Resources http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/index.html
A source of neutral, non-commercial homeschooling information.

Learn in Freedom! http://learninfreedom.org/
This site is about learning in freedom, taking responsibility for your own learning. It shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you.

MAhomeschoolers Yahoo List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MAhomeschoolers/
An inclusive list for homeschooling families in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Home Learning Association http://mhla.org/index.htm
MHLA is an advocacy and education organization, which endorses home learning as an alternative to public or private schooling.

Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Bluebook
http://www.miaa.net/MIAA-Handbook-07-09.pdf
Bluebook pages with rules pertinent to homeschooling

National Center for Education Statistics: Homeschooling in the United States 2003
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006042.pdf

National Center for Education Statistics: 1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009030.pdf

Nettlepatch Press: Your Trusty Homeschool Emergency Kit http://www.nettlepatch.net/homeschool/index.html
Calming suggestions for getting started doubts and jitters

Run Spot Run
http://www.runspotrun.com/
Learning resources for thinking children and their parents.

Secretary of the Commonwealth's Kid Zone http://www.state.ma.us/sec/cis/ciskid/kididx.htm
Stories, puzzles and games about Massachusetts.

Uniquely Gifted: Resources for Gifted Children with Special Needs
http://www.uniquelygifted.org/

Vector64 Home Education OpenCourseWare Page http://www.vector64.com/HomeEd/video.html
Contains links to sites that provide free, online video lectures for academic courses and other Open CourseWare materials.

Waldorf Family Network
http://www.WaldorfFamilyNetwork.org
A grassroots community service project serving those inspired by Waldorf Education, including homeschooling families.

We Stand for Homeschooling http://westandforhomeschooling.org/res/index.php

World Book Typical Course of Study
http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?curriculum
As a source of information, World Book offers the results of ongoing research into curriculum requirements and standards. The learning levels include preschool through grade 12. Naturally, there are regional and local variations that cannot be accounted for in every detail. But the typical course of study reflects general curriculum requirements across North America.

The information on this website does not constitute legal advice; it is provided for informational purposes only.