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What's in Practical Homeschooling #111?
FEATURES
- P20W: Why these four letters mean the new Common Core databases are worse than we thought
- 4 spooky new educational trends you should know about
- Safe places to find pen pals for your kids, and why it's worth it
- Your child's science experiment could literally be sent to outer space - for free! Here's how.
- How to make holidays an inspiring, and educational, break from formal academics
- The ups and downs of homeschooling while hubby's enlisted in the Navy
- Tomboys! What to do when your little princess morphs into a cowgirl
- A terrific family writing project
- Online High: what it's like to take courses from a high-quality online academy
- Meet a second-generation homeschool family, and see how they schedule their day (as opposed to how Mom did it)
- Homeschooled girl starts a charity
- Homeschool volleyball champs!
COLUMNS
- Melissa Morgan has 10 Top Tips for helping your preschooler memorize the Bible
- Dr. Kuni Beasley explains how to "package" your teen for college admissions
- From best-selling author Janice VanCleave: a Christmas-themed project and experiment.
- Our classical columnist, Dr. Bruce McMenomy, introduces an innovative way to test kids in difficult subjects
- Sam Blumenfeld went to school 75 years ago. He remembers and contrasts the schools of the past with schools today.
- Anne Wegener encourages us with a message about the upside of kids' academic struggles
NEWS
- One of the huge companies behind Common Core acquires a company that tests for ADHD. Ominous.
- The results of our informal poll on how early homeschoolers start - or plan to start - their children on formal academics
- Britain's "Too Much, Too Soon" campaign
- What's happening to high-school math requirements?
- The weird connection between exit exams and prison
SPOTLIGHT REVIEWS
- A set of seven sweet "Super Seatwork" K-3 language-arts workbooks
- A course for teens on how to start their own micro businesses
REVIEWS
- Learn with Lowly Worm
- Find history answers quickly with this book
- How to draw, in proper proportion, from real life
- A poetry course
PLUS...
- Contests for subscribers with awesome prizes!
- Envelope Gallery of kids' art
- Ads with special offers
WANT TO SUBSCRIBE?
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