What's in Practical Homeschooling #97?

FEATURES

• The 211 best homeschool products - find out who are the 2011 Practical Homeschooling Reader Award winners! Like all these articles, this is ONLY in the print magazine
• How to be a homeschool "superstar"
• Tiger Mom or Pussycat Mom?
• 25 tips for parents of middle school students
• What "Sustainability" and other terms you'll see popping up in educational materials really mean
• A busy homeschool day in Mississsippi

COLUMNS

• Classical education expert Diane Lockman shows how to set grammar workbooks aside and improve motivation with a "Grammar Camp"
• Don Aslett, the world's #1 cleaning and time-management expert, reveals how to make a "bad day" super productive
• Best-selling science author Janice VanCleave introduces how to learn the Periodic Table of Elements
• Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring, shares inexpensive ways to help a preschooler's thinking skills bloom
• Education expert Sam Blumenfeld has a new way to interest kids in classical music
• Jeannette Webb, recipient of the Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher Award and expert at getting kids into top colleges, asks how much we should do for our children and how much we should do WITH them
• Homeschool author Rhonda Barfield has a solution to the problem of too much to do and too little time

NEWS

• Some new insights into the supposed epidemic of teen mental illness
• A parent's translator for teen text
• Scary new proposal for one single source of job credentialing
• Guess who won the American Collegiate Moot Court Association national championships... again
• Public schools seek sponsors. Beaucoup tax $$ not enough.
• Where you can get a free grad-school education that's actually MORE prestigious than the expensive ones you were considering
• Weight training for kids - no longer verboten

REVIEWS

• Homeschool a struggling learner
• Learn digital storytelling and podcasting
• A patriotic US history curriculum
• Art with anything
• Learn to handwrite like a president
• BJU Economics Course: easy-to-teach high-school economics with a bonus Personal Finance course built in
• eHarvey online courses: excellent teaching crossed with one of the best online curriculum delivery systems.

PLUS...

• Contests for subscribers with awesome prizes!
• Envelope Gallery of kids' art
• Ads with special offers