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FEATURES

• 2003 Reader Awards ballot
• What's new at the first college for homeschoolers
• Getting started in homeschooling: the first 10 steps
• Hospitality and homeschooling
• Letters to the Editor
• Contests for subscribers
• Envelope Gallery of homeschooled kids' art
• Day at Our House diary: how a family whose child has leukemia combines homeschooling with health care

COLUMNS

• Forgotten American History: How America fought the real pirates of the Caribbean 200 years ago, by education and phonics expert Sam Blumenfeld
• How to make history come alive with easy and inexpensive costumes, by unit-studies expert Jessica Hulcy, co-author of the KONOS Curriculum
• How your kids can "inspire greatness" as Special Olympics volunteers, by Kristin Hamerski, Miss Teen Alaska, whose brother was one of the competitors this year
• College admissions and financial aid hurdles and how homeschoolers overcame them, by Chris Klicka, Senior Counsel for Home School Legal Defense Association
• How to avoid the dread disease of "overwriting," by Dave Marks of the National Writing Institute
• How to start and maintain a Montessori co-op, by Katherine von Duyke, author of numerous homeschool resources

REVIEWS

• Play N Talk: it's back in a fancy new package!
• Flashmaster, a handheld electronic math drill tutor
• Math Essentials workbooks designed to help your child skip a grade level in 20 minutes a day
• Math and the Cosmos, another great unit-study software program from Wildridge
• Terrapin Logo teaches kids programming and logic . . . with a turtle!
• Real-Life Homeschooling by Practical Homeschooling contributor Rhonda Barfield
• So You're Thinking About Homeschooling by "Facts of Life" actress Lisa Whelchel
• Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery by David Albert
• Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
• The Vanishing Word by Arthur W. Hunt III
• Romancing Your Child's Heart by Monte Swan

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