What's in Practical Homeschooling #84?

FEATURES

• 19 ways to get the most from your library
• How to pick a college major and career that has the least risk of eventually being outsourced
• Greg Pride reports on what a week at Summit Ministries famous worldview camp is really like
• Single mom shares her homeschool day

COLUMNS

• Mary Pride explains how she saved half a million on her children's college education -- and how you can do it, too
• Best-selling science author Janice VanCleave kicks off her new multi-age "Janice's Science Club" with a lesson on gravity
• Don Aslett, the world's #1 cleaning expert, provides safety and equipment tips for kids
• Homeschool author Joyce McPherson reveals how to start a math club and even enter the MathCounts competition
• Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring, shares great resources for inexpensive, parent-led Bible education
• M.I.T. graduate (and Ph.D. mathematics candidate) Bill Pride gets us up-to-date on how to get your kids ready for algebra... and why they might need to do this years before you did
• History expert Sam Blumenfeld traces how 13 colonies became the United States of America
• Homeschool author and speaker Shelley Noonan shares her secret to starting the homeschool year in style
• Jeannette Webb, recipient of the Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher Award and expert at getting kids into top colleges, reveals the top 25 tips for a great senior year

NEWS

• The California-versus-homeschoolers saga comes to an end -- for now
• Would you like to attend the 2009 Homeschool Basketball Championships? Here's how.
• Free tip sheet for stutterers
• Cool new way your homeschool group can raise money, provided it's a registered charity
• New essay contest with excellent prizes
• Nifty science contest with even better prizes
• And another science contest
• A former PHS columnist meets Sarah Palin
• New owner for popular science curriculum publisher

SPOTLIGHT REVIEWS

• What can this 111-year-old correspondence school do for you?
• The software package that teaches piano... and comes with its own keyboard
• Handy guides on a myriad of subjects, that fit in a looseleaf binder
• Award winning software that might be able to double your reading speed

MORE REVIEWS

• New book proves homeschooled children are exceptionally well-adjusted
• Homeschooling + time management = this new book
• How to counter group manipulation tactics -- or, what if you don't WANT your community "organized"?
• Homeschool veteran's new how-to parenting book
• And one more by another popular homeschool author
• How to create truly creative Christmas letters
• A book that teaches vocabulary for the SAT via an episodic teen novel

PLUS...

• Contests for subscribers
• Readers' opinions on important subjects
• Envelope Gallery of kids' art
• Ads with special offers