What's in the Current Issue of Practical Homeschooling?
FEATURES
- 2015 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards — find out the BEST 301 curricula in dozens of subject areas!
- EXCLUSIVE! We interview Logan Guleff, homeschooled winner of MasterChef Junior. How does his homeschool work?
- A team of homeschooled kids ROCK Kickstarter with their innovative new product
- Answers to 9 of the toughest questions homeschoolers ask, including how to homeschool a daydreamer and what to do when your child “plays dumb.”
- What are the ingredients that make unschooling work…and what happens when they are missing?
- A veteran homeschool mom of 7 children and a mom with a literature-based classical homeschool share their homeschool day
COLUMNS
- Lawyer Antony Kolenc explains how the rights of homeschooled children with special needs to access free, public services vary, state by state
- Sam Blumenfeld shares, from his personal experience as student “back in the day,” the how government/civics education in schools has changed over the last 80 years
- Bess Wuertz shows & tells how to purchase or create your own Montessori language-arts materials
- Michele Lee knows not every family wants to do “real” dissections in science class — so she reviews 6 apps that teach this information digitally
- Melissa Morgan has dozens of helpful (and mostly free!) suggestions for how to get your preschooler started on math
- Dr. Kuni Beasley went to college on an ROTC scholarship. As a college/scholarship expert today, he tells you what you need to know to apply for and get one.
- From best-selling author Janice VanCleave: some simple Spring science activities and facts.
- Mary Pride sees that the pendulum has swung from the popular belief that “homeschooling is too hard” to a newer myth that “homeschooling takes no effort at all.” Here's what we need to tell our friends before they make the decision.
- Anne Wegener answers the dreaded question, “What if I forget to teach them something?”
NEWS
- New report on what college grads wish they had been told BEFORE applying to college
- Study shows teens have no clue about what other teens are really doing. Seriously!
- Do students want to switch to an online SAT?
- Some surprising statistics about the number of kids in preschool and the types of families that send preschoolers to school
SPOTLIGHT REVIEWS
- Spelling You See - innovative new course from Math-U-See
- A book that shows how classical education can be for special-needs kids, not just kids who are already academic top achievers
- Dr. Jay Wile's new elementary science curriculum
PLUS...
- Contests for subscribers with awesome prizes!
- Envelope Gallery of kids’ art
- Ads with special offers
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