Homeschool World: News: What's in Practical Homeschooling #80?

What's in Practical Homeschooling #80?

PHS 80

FEATURES

Which presidential candidate actually supports homeschooling the most - and has been doing it most consistently?
A homeschool graduate wins college football's top award - the story behind Tim Tebow's unprecedented Heisman Trophy win
How to start and run your own Shakespeare Camp
How to turn fat kids into healthy kids
Double pneumonia. A year on a respirator. Major spinal surgery, followed by three months flat on his back. How one homeschool graduate rebounded from this and, although initially too weak to attend campus-based classes, nevertheless earned his college diploma.
Meet a very busy family from Virginia who are into homeschool theatre
Homeschool sibs with a winning science video, a homeschooler who won a national songwriting/performing competition, and two homeschooled girls who are big-time winners when it comes to sheep breeding

COLUMNS

Educational inventor Frank Armbruster reveals how to turn reluctant readers - including boys - into voracious readers
How to teach your kids good character, by Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring
Canada's National Educator Literacy Award winner Michael Maloney explains how to create and use flashcards that will make your kids' geography grades soar
M.I.T. graduate (and future optometry student) Bill Pride pulls the lid back on an emerging science education boondoggle
Education expert Sam Blumenfeld asks, "Who wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare?"
Jeannette Webb, recipient of the Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher Award, shares what a parent needs to do to be an effective mentor for his or her children
NEW COLUMNIST! Homeschool author Shelley Noonan spells out how to beat the mid-winter blues

NEWS

Has a "cure" been discovered for Down Syndrome?
Get read to duct-tape yourself all the way to a scholarship!
The horrifying truth of what kids who don't read enough are missing
Insider tip on how to avoid your kid being "bumped" from the college of their choice because of a common teen practice
Time now to sign up for those Latin and Greek exams
Why is Mexico supplying free textbooks to American schools?
An unreported reason why the data on which "global warming" models have been built is corrupt - and how you can personally get involved in correcting it
How much faster do you read when what you're reading is in print instead of on the computer screen?

SPOTLIGHT REVIEWS

CD-ROM and DVD-based product teaches upper-level math. But does it beat the competition?
An online KŠ8 curriculum based on software homeschoolers have traditionally rated tops
Our reviewer likes this online phonics-based course

MORE REVIEWS

You've heard of Usborne books and DK books. Meet another publisher of colorful "fact" books as we review dozens of their offerings
Need help learning the Greek alphabet? You've got it!
Now, want to learn the "Koine" Greek language? Try this popular multi-level course complete with mnemonic flashcards
A multi-book Latin course our reviewer loved
Not into Latin in a big way - just want to learn the Latin phrases educated people know? Try these workbooks

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