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| Acknowledgments for the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition | |
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| What The Well-Trained Mind Does: An Overview | |
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| Practical Considerations: Using The The Well-Trained Mind without Losing Your Own | |
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| Supplementing Your Child's Education: The Well-Trained Mind and Full-Time School | |
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| Prologue: The Story of a Classical Home Education | |
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| Uncharted Territory: Jessie | |
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| A Personal Look at Classical Education: Susan | |
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| The Grammar Stage: Kindergarten Through Fourth Grade | |
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| The Parrot Years | |
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| Now or Never | |
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| How to Teach the Poll-Parrot Stage | |
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| Priorities | |
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| Unlocking the Doors: The Preschool Years | |
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| Preschool: Birth to Three | |
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| Kindergarten Years: Four and Five | |
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| Resources | |
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| Words, Words, Words: Spelling, Grammar, Reading, and Writing | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| General Instructions for Grades 1 through 4 | |
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| Overview of Language Work | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Joy of Numbers: Math | |
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| The Way Children Think | |
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| Math Tables: A Defense | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Choosing Programs | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Seventy Centuries in Four Years: History and Geography | |
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| Seventy Centuries in Four Years | |
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| What If You're Starting in the Middle? | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Resources | |
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| Making Sense of the World: Science | |
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| Priorities | |
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| Textbooks | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Resources | |
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| Dead Languages for Live Kids: Latin (and Other Languages Still Living) | |
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| Why Latin? | |
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| How Does Latin Work? | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Schedules | |
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| What about Other Languages? | |
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| Resources | |
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| Electronic Teachers: Using Computers and Videos | |
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| Matters of Faith: Religion | |
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| Resources | |
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| Finer Things: Art and Music | |
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| Art | |
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| Music | |
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| Resources | |
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| Part I: Epilogue | |
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| The Grammar Stage at a Glance | |
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| Notebook Summary, Grades 1 through 4 | |
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| Whole Language and Phonics: Whole to Parts versus Parts to Whole | |
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| The Logic Stage: Fifth Grade Through Eighth Grade | |
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| The Argumentative Child | |
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| Building on the Foundation | |
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| Logic and the Trivium | |
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| Logic in the Curriculum | |
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| How to Teach the Logic Stage | |
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| Priorities | |
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| Snow White Was Irrational: Logic for the Intuitive | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| For the Logically Challenged | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Language of Reason: Math | |
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| How to Do It: Fifth and Sixth Grades | |
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| The Shift to Upper-Level Math | |
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| Resources | |
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| Why 1492? History and Geography | |
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| Organizing the Material | |
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| Starting in the Middle (or with More than One) | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Resources | |
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| Thinking Straight: Spelling, Grammar, Reading, and Writing | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Spelling and Word Study | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Reading | |
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| Writing | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Making Deductions: Science | |
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| Your Goals | |
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| Texts | |
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| Schedule | |
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| The Notebook | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Resources | |
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| Looking into Other Worlds: Latin and Languages | |
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| Teaching Options | |
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| Which Languages? | |
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| Which Texts? | |
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| When Do I Do It? | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Away with Abusive Fallacies! Religion | |
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| Resources | |
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| The History of Creativity: Art and Music | |
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| Art | |
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| Music | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Magic Boxes: Using Computers and Videos | |
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| Software | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Videos | |
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| Resources | |
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| Moving toward Independence: Logic for Life | |
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| Part II: Epilogue | |
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| The Logic Stage at a Glance | |
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| The Rhetoric Stage: Ninth Grade Through Twelfth Grade | |
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| Speaking Your Mind: The Rhetoric Stage | |
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| A General Guide to the Rhetoric Stage | |
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| The Study of Rhetoric | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Debate | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Skill with Words: Grammar and Writing | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Great Books: History and Reading | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| How to Talk about the Great Books | |
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| Writing Projects | |
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| What about American Government? | |
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| Starting in the Middle | |
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| University Sources for Great-Books Curricula | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Comfort with Numbers: Math | |
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| Possible Sequences | |
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| Outside Help | |
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| Advanced Placement | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Principles and Laws: Science | |
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| An Overview of Rhetoric-Stage Science | |
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| How to Do It | |
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| Outside Help | |
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| Sample Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Learning Other Worlds: Foreign Languages | |
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| Which Languages? | |
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| Texts and Courses | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| Mastering the Magic Box: Computer Skills | |
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| Generally Speaking | |
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| Practically Speaking | |
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| Schedule | |
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| Resources | |
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| Apologizing for Faith: Religion | |
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| Resources | |
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| Appreciating the Arts: Art and Music | |
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| Art | |
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| Music | |
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| Schedules | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Specialist | |
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| General Guidelines | |
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| Flexibility | |
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| Specific Guidelines | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Schedule | |
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| Resources | |
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| Some People Hate Homer | |
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| Part III: Epilogue | |
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| The Rhetoric Stage at a Glance | |
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| Coming Home: How to Educate Your Child at Home | |
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| The Kitchen-Table School: Why Home-Educate? | |
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| Why Should You Home-School? | |
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| Encouragement for Parents | |
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| First Steps | |
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| Taking Your Child Out of School | |
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| The Realities of Home Schooling | |
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| A Personal Word from Jessie | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Confident Child: Socialization | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Character Issue: Parents as Teachers | |
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| Resources | |
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| And Just When Do I Do All This? Schedules for Home Schoolers | |
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| How Much Time Does It Take? | |
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| Yearly Planning | |
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| Weekly Planning | |
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| Daily Planning | |
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| Jessie's Method of Organizing: A Personal Account | |
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| Good Use of Time | |
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| Home Schooling with Babies and Toddlers | |
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| Schedules for Home Schoolers | |
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| Resources | |
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| Paper Proof: Grades and Record Keeping | |
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| Notification | |
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| Elementary School and Middle School: Portfolios | |
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| High School: Transcripts | |
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| Diploma | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Yardstick: Standardized Testing | |
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| Yearly Testing | |
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| AP and CLEP Exams | |
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| PSAT, SAT, and ACT | |
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| Resources | |
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| Where's the Team? Athletics at Home | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Local School: Dealing with Your School System | |
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| Resources | |
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| Yelling for Help: Tutors, Online Resources, Correspondence Schools, Cooperative Classes, and Colleges and Universities | |
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| Tutors | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Correspondence Schools | |
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| Cooperative Classes | |
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| Community Colleges and Local Universities | |
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| Resources | |
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| Going to College: Applications for Home Schoolers | |
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| Planning for College | |
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| Choosing a College | |
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| The Application Process | |
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| The Portfolio | |
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| One Successful Application | |
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| Transcript Help | |
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| A Word about Early Admissions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Working: Apprenticeships and Other Jobs | |
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| Resources | |
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| More Stuff: The Annotated Catalog List | |
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| General | |
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| Elementary Grades | |
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| History | |
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| Classics, Latin, Logic | |
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| Shakespeare | |
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| Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, and So Forth | |
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| Science | |
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| Mathematics | |
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| Used-Curricula and -Book Vendors | |
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| The Final Word: Starting in the Middle | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Taking an Oral History | |
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| Home-Education Organizations | |
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| National Science Competitions | |
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| Sources | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |