About Sonlight Curriculum
Sonlight Curriculum offers positive and negatives to purchasing
our curriculum. We want you to know up front about our books
as well as our curriculum.
Anti-Semitism : Its prevalence within the Christian right
By Skipp Porteous. Warns about anti-semitism in McGuffey Readers
and Bob Jones material that some homeschool families might inadvertantly
choose.
A2 Homeschool Curriculum: Pros and Cons of This Curriculum
For most home schoolers the organization of the school year when you have a wide range of grades is half the battle. With this curriculum everything is spelled out for us. The subjects are broken down, with suggestions for each one. By Joy Sexton.
The Basic Cozy Grammar Course Reviews
Reviews of this video-based grammar course. Many of the reviews
are from homeschoolers.
Biology
books missing big picture, survey says
None of 10 top U.S. high school biology books contain adequate
information that improve science literacy among students, according
to a recent review by a science educational organization.
Books4Homeschool
Reviews of various curriculum, with focus on Christian texts.
Cathy Duffy Reviews
Cathy Duffy and others review homeschool curriculum both from
an inclusive as well as a Christian point of view. Look for reviews
on K12, The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child,
Calvert Math, New Elementary Mathematics, and many others.
EPGY
EPGY is an advanced K-8 math program delivered on a Windows CD.
Here are comments by kids and parents about what they like and
dislike about this program for gifted kids. From Hoagies Gifted
Site.
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Homeschool Review
A Yahoo Group. Let's share reviews on these and more:
Ruth Beechick, Charlotte Mason, Abeka, Sonlight, KONOS, Bob Jones,
Saxon, Beautiful Feet, Math-U-See, Christian Liberty Press, Greenleaf,
Calvert, Video Text Algebra, Mystery Of History, TOG, Winters
Promise, TWTM, Shurley Grammar, Simply Grammar, Weaver, LLAL,
Horizons, Jacob's, School Of Tomorrow (ACE), Alpha Omega, Rod
Staff, Singapore Math, K12, Videos, CD-ROMS, etc.
Homeschool Reviews
A message board where various curriculums and materials are compared
and reviewed by the members. Site nicely segmented into exact
products, so finding the review you want is easy.
Homeschooling
From the Heart Reviews
Emailed newsletter features reviews of books, curriculum, software
and more -- some are well-known resources, others are wonderful,
yet little-known and we're hoping to help you find some of those
hidden treasures. Best of all -- no one will be trying to sell
you anything!
Homeschooling Together
We are a homeschooling family in Charlotte, North Carolina. We hope that many homeschoolers will add reviews to Homeschooling Together so that this site will reflect the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of the greater homeschooling community.
Konos
I think KONOS is a great unit studies curriculum. I bought
my first volume back in 1993. It was the first curriculum
that we bought. I decided on unit studies since they seemed
to be a great way to learn--hands on and integrated. By Carole
Thaxton and Jessica Hulcy.
Latin
Curriculum Reviews
From the Classical Christian Education Support Loop.
Math
Text Books by Harold Jacobs vs Saxon
Susan Richman compares these two math texts popular with homeschoolers.
I have Jacobs' texts available.
Mathematically
Correct - Algebra 1 Reviews
The primary factor, called Mathematical Depth , was strongly
defined by the majority of rating dimensions - those that relate
to student work and to the quality of the presentation, its clarity,
the examples, and the use of proof. The secondary factor was
called Analytic Focus and was strongly defined by an emphasis
on analytic approaches and appropriateness of technology.
Mathematically
Correct
Mathematics Program Reviews for Grades 2, 5, and 7.
More
on the California creationist lawsuit
According to the lawsuit, UC's board of admissions also advised
the school that it would not approve biology and science courses
that relied primarily on textbooks published by Bob Jones University
Press and A Beka Books, two Christian publishers.
My Experience with ATIA
The very fact that BG took it upon himself to attempt to control
what I---the wife of another man---should wear sent major red
flags that this was a man whose system was presuming to usurp
my husband's role. It was alarming, to say the least. By Rebecca
Prewett.
Pensacola Christian College and A Beka
ABeka employs nearly all student employees and pays them all minimum wage. In the summer, the pay is slightly higher, $7.50 per hour, because it would be difficult to get anyone to work for minimum wage in the summer when they could get more at home. Some students are forced to work all night in the print shop. Others are assigned to the distribution center even if they are not suited to hard labor. Sometimes students are injured and forced to go back to work anyway.
Reviews, Articles, & Curriculum Info
Reviews of homeschooling materials is a regular feature in the
Home Crusader Newsletter, which is sent out free via email.
Switched-On Schoolhouse
A computer-based curriculum from Alpha Omega Publications. The purpose of this list is for homeschooling families to share ideas and gain insight into this curriculum.
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
Richard Feynman, was asked by the California State Curriculum
Commission to help evaluate all the science textbooks. "All
of those books were, "a little bit wrong, always!... Perpetual
absurdity... UNIVERSALLY LOUSY!"
SOS
Homeschoolers
A place for those of us using Switched-On-Schoolhouse Curriculum,
to get together and discuss achievements, problems, pointers,
or just get support.
Tammy's
(Mostly) Home Schooling Curriculum and Book Reviews
I like hanging out at some of the home schooling bulletin boards.
It seems like some of the same curriculum questions keep popping
up over and over. So I've put a few reviews up here to
live permanently.
What Works Clearinghouse
Collects, screens, and identifies studies of the effectiveness
of educational interventions (programs, products, practices,
and policies). We review the studies that have the strongest
design, and report on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies
against the WWC Evidence Standards so that you know what the
best scientific evidence has to say.
See also Software Advice