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Links
Classes,
Curricula & Other Resources
Hoagie's
Page
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/investigations.htm
Includes links to individual lesson plans and lesson plan collections,
as well as links to free online high school courses.
Homeschool
Reviews
http://homeschoolreviews.com/
A site where homeschoolers can read reviews and discuss curriculum
and other issues that relate to homeschooling.
Khan
Academy
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. With
a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic
to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're
on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you
want, at your own pace.
Living
and Learning with Your Little Ones
http://www.besthomeschooling.org/gateway/inted16.html
Preschool and Kindergarten learning activities
Secretary
of the Commonwealth's Kid Zone
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/cis/ciskid/kididx.htm
Stories, puzzles and games about Massachusetts.
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.
World
Book Typical Course of Study
http://www.worldbook.com/typical_course_of_study.html
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.
General
Homeschooling Information
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.
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.
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.
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.
The
Unschooler Experiment
http://www.unschooler.com/
The Unschooler Experiment is... an exploration of the lasting
influence of home education and a celebration of people who question
and experiment.
We
Stand for Homeschooling
http://westandforhomeschooling.org/res/index.php
Legal
and Accounting Help
Association
of HomeSchool Attorneys
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AHSA-USA/
This list is an opportunity for homeschoolers to contact homeschooling
attorneys and experts about homeschooling legal and litigation
issues. It is an informal network of attorneys and legal experts
that are concerned with litigation pending and threatened against
homeschoolers. Its primary purpose is to exchange legal information
within the profession, and to educate and support attorneys and
experts involved in homeschool litigation. A referral list of
attorneys and legal experts may be maintained…
Homeschool
CPA
http://www.homeschoolcpa.com/
Helping homeschool organizations obtain non-profit status.
Massachusetts
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!
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-09-11.pdf
Bluebook pages with rules pertinent to homeschooling
Secretary
of the Commonwealth's Kid Zone
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/cis/ciskid/kididx.htm
Stories, puzzles and games about Massachusetts.
Networking
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.
MAhomeschoolers
Yahoo List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MAhomeschoolers/
An inclusive list for homeschooling families in Massachusetts.
Research,
Studies and Overviews
Freedom
to Learn
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn
Peter Gray's Psychology Today blog about the roles of play and
curiosity as foundations for learning.
Home
Schooling Goes Mainstream by Milton Gaither, Education Next, Winter
2009. v. 9, n. 1. http://educationnext.org/home-schooling-goes-mainstream/
Home
schooling improves academic performance and reduces impact of
socio-economic factors
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/news/display.aspx?id=12418
National
Center for Education Statistics: 1.5 Million Homeschooled Students
in the United States in 2007
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009030.pdf
National
Center for Education Statistics: Homeschooling in the United States
2003 http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006042.pdf
Special
Needs
Aut-2B-Home
http://home.earthlink.net/~tammyglaser798/authome.html
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!
Positively
ADD - Parenting and Unschooling
http://www.mindspring.com/~jupton/jan1.html
Sports
Massachusetts
Interscholastic Athletic Association Bluebook
http://www.miaa.net/MIAA-Handbook-09-11.pdf
Bluebook pages with rules pertinent to homeschooling
The
information on this website does not constitute legal advice;
it is provided for informational purposes only.
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