Homeschool
Happy Birthday Bilbo Baggins–and Happy Hobbit Day!
He left the Shire when he was eleventy-one. 
Homeschooler Helps: Kahn Academy!
A non-profit, Khan Academy offers students an extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web. Their library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
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Fox News: “The Evolution of Home Schooling”
Over the 15 or so years we’ve been homeschooling, it seems like the media has always said that there are about 1.5 million children that are educated at home. Yet every year, the number of homeschoolers is said to have increased by a certain percent….but there are still only 1.5 million homeschoolers?!? Having been to various regional homeschool conferences, I think I’ve battled more than that many parents at the vendor’s tables!!!
Homeschoolers Face Imprisonment Due to UN Treaty Violations
Four families in Botswana Homeschool for religious reasons, but apparently that’s a violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child!!
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