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FEATURES

• What Is Homeschooling? Mary Pride says it's time to draw the line between public school offshoots and real homeschooling.
• Dr. Arthur Robinson shows why math and vocabulary are the tools of learning--and how to prepare to win college scholarships
• "Letterboxing"--what is it?
• Barry Stebbing, who has taught art to over 50,000 homeschool students, shares his recipe for teaching art at home
• A day at Mary Pride's house. How can you run a business and still teach seven children at home? Find out!

COLUMNS

• Our annual update on the state of homeschooling around the world, by Chris Klicka, Senior Counsel for Home School Legal Defense Association
• Inexpensive real-world learning opportunities, by Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring
• How to train your preschooler's senses to be ready for academics, by retired kindergarten teacher and author June Oberlander
• How to encourage teamwork--"sibling revelry" instead of "sibling rivalry," by Mary Pride, the publisher of Practical Homeschooling and the mother of 9 totally homeschooled kids
• Forgotten American History: What you never learned about the Spanish-American War, by education expert Sam Blumenfeld
• How to build poise through public performances, by unit-studies and co-op pioneer Jessica Hulcy, co-author of the KONOS Curriculum
• Amazing things your teens can accomplish while training their communication skills, by Kristin Hamerski, Miss Alaska Teen American Coed 2003
• How to train your kids now to produce A+ papers in college, by Dave Marks of the National Writing Institute
• NEW COLUMN! Homeschool graduate Michael Reitz encourages the "next generation" to pick up the homeschooling baton

REVIEWS

• An in-depth look at "K12," Bill Bennett's curriculum
• Commanding Heights, a fascinating economics DVD series from WGBH-Boston.
• Robinson Curriculum Vocabulary Exercises--learn vocabulary while reading old books!
• The "Little House" Vocabulary Companion--learn vocabulary with Laura Ingalls Wilder!
• English from the Roots Up--that's Greek and Latin roots!
• Rummy Roots and More Rummy Roots--two games that drill word roots
• Wordly Wise and Wordly Wise 3000--vocabulary workbooks popular among homeschoolers
• World History: A Comparative Civilizations Perspective--software that attempts to present "first-hand history"

PLUS . . .

• Letters to the Editor
• Contests for subscribers
• Envelope Gallery of homeschooled kids' art
• NewsShorts: How to sign up for Greek, Latin, and mythology contests & more
• "Show & Tell" showcase of homeschool kids' success

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