Looking for homeschool language lessons?   I’ve discovered an excellent website that can teach your child a foreign language—even if you don’t speak the language yourself.  Even better?  Most of it’s free.  The website is called "Mango" and it’s one of the best resources I’ve found for teaching homeschoolers a foreign language.   Here’s how they describe [...]

Looking for homeschool curriculum and free online high school courses? I’ve discovered a great website that includes links to:

Interactive Geometry courses with online video.
Online Algebra I courses with free homework, quizzes, and tests (with key).
American History and Western Civilization courses with video instruction.
Online Pre-calculus and Calculus courses (including AP) with video.
Interactive AP Biology I and [...]

As the number of homeschool students grows (currently 1.1 million), colleges are revamping application policies to accommodate them.
According to a recent news article by the Associated Press, 83% of colleges now have a formal evaluation process for homeschooled students. This is up from only 52%, just 4 years ago. As the number [...]

Don’t you wish you could put your child through college for free?
Well, MIT and UC-Berkley now allow you to teach your high school student (or college student) for free using online lectures and video courses. Of course, your child doesn’t receive college credit for these courses, but they can learn the material [...]

This is an excellent article about how colleges (notably Stanford University and Columbia College) are encouraging homeschooled students to apply and enroll. Colleges ignore homeschool students at their peril—the demographics of the homeschool population simply cannot be ignored. The most recent estimate is that the homeschool population is increasing by roughly 11% a [...]

George Mason University is launching a full slate of online courses for Virginia high school students who cannot attend regular school. “It’s way cool,” said Priscilla Norton, a GMU education professor and director of the new online academy for high schoolers.
The Fairfax university had been developing the program for the past three years, offering online [...]

Student With 4.0 GPA Abandons School System for Homeschooling Magic City Morning Star – High School Student With 4.0 GPA Abandons School System for Homeschooling By MediaWire Jul 20, 2006, 11:43 Email this article Printer ORANGE PARK,FL — When Stephanie Large was enrolled at her local public high school, she was what [...]

A recent news article from The York Daily Record that describes a Pennsylvania homeschool graduation ceremony…
21 homeschool students became grads Saturday
by Theresa McMinn
Most high school graduations have similar programs. There’s usually a guest speaker, and final words to class members from a salutatorian and valedictorian. The graduating class is often presented as a whole [...]