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
