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Recommended books to help you Homeschool
 
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: our Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child:
Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
by Linda Dobson
Many of today's families are opting to teach their children at home. The first hurdle these families face is getting started.
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Home Learning Year by Year
Home Learning Year by Year:
How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
by Rebecca Rupp
A structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school.
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Resources for internationally mobile families considering homeschooling.

My general advice is to contact the embassy of the country where you'll be, and ask about their compulsory education code and the exemptions to it. Do they allow for private schools or tutors? How does one qualify as a private school or tutor? Could you apply? If not, ask if your children can homeschool through a distance learning program, as enrollees in a distant private school.

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The Big Field Trip
We have lived in India for a year and a half now, and some of my highest hopes and educational goals have been realized. Simultaneously, some of my ideas lie trampled under the stress and adjustment of living in a new culture. By Sherra Still, TOS.

Expat Network
A comprehensive resource for expatriates living and working abroad. 

Foreign Service
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
Let your children see the world! Consider homeschooling while posted at an embassy abroad.

Home Education Abroad
If you are living away from your home culture, you may want to teach your children at home while you settle in and visit the local schools, or you might decide that it's a good opportunity to try out home education long-term.

Undiscovered Country
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
by Gillison, Samantha
Review from your Homeschooling Guide on this dark novel of an homeschooling family's nightmare in New Guinea. 1999 Paperback from Amazon.com.

Foreign Service

American Foreign Service Association Scholarship Program
Provides financial aid and merit scholarships for Foreign Service youth to pursue their college education.

Education Allowance
274.12 Other Amounts ... b. in lieu of the "school at post" rate, a separate allowance rate of up to $3,000 each school year for home study/private instruction in grades K-8 and up to $5,000 in grades 9-12; however, if the local school/grade is adequate, reimbursement is limited to the school at post rate if it is lower than the home study/private instruction rate.

Family Liaison Office
Because Foreign Service children face constantly changing cultures, uneven quality of schools abroad, and scarcity of educational facilities for special-needs children, a priority of the Family Liaison Office (FLO) is the educational and emotional development of children from mobile families.

The Home Study Option
Foreign Service families are taking another look at the home school option when a post lacks educational facilities or because of personal or religious preferences. The following are some thoughts, based on one family's experience, to help you evaluate the option of a home study program for your family.

Home Study/Private Instructions Questions and Answers
QUESTION: What is adequate home study/private instruction?
ANSWER: This is a complete academic course approved by a competent authority using correspondence course and other appropriate materials in the home or by private instruction.

Homeschooling and Online Education
Prepared by the US Department of State for their employees and families.

See also Distance Learning Programs

Homeschooling

The Home Study Option
Home schooling, however, has become a more familiar concept through its current popularity in the U.S. Now, Foreign Service families are taking another look at the home school option when a post lacks educational facilities or because of personal or religious preferences.

Missionary & Expatriate Kids

Homeschooling From Abroad
China has changed the whole family and I'm certain it's the best education Zak has received up this point. In the US, so much of what we hear about China is simply untrue. By Leslie Clary, HEM M/J 06.

You Know You're an MK When...
1. You can't answer the question, "Where are you from?"

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Expat-homeschool
This list is for expatriates who homeschool their child or children.

Options

International Schools Services
The ISS appears to be able to customize an education program for families stationed in even the most remote areas of the world.

Overseas Schools
This is a page so you can see what your alternatives are other than homeschooling. You can find contact and background information on worldwide American-sponsored elementary and secondary schools overseas and current fact sheets on the 180 American international schools.

Support

AAFSW Playgroup
A group of stay-at-home Foreign Service parents in the Washington DC area. With the support of the American Association of Foreign Service Women, the playgroup has grown to include members from the State Department and other foreign affairs agencies.

Teens

Foreign Service Youth Foundation
Provides information, advocacy and outreach activities for the internationally mobile youth of all U.S. foreign affairs agencies. This support is extended to youth and their parents in the Washington, D.C. area as well as at Foreign Service posts abroad.

I.B. or Not I.B.? That is the question
With the virtues and value of A-levels in dispute as never before, more and more parents and students are considering the International Baccalaureate. But what is the IB? Where does it come from, and -- crucially -- is it any good?

Taking the ACT Outside the 50 United States
Students must register directly with the supervisor of the test center where they wish to test, not with ACT and not via the Web. The deadline date for contacting the test center is the Friday two weeks before the scheduled test date.

Third Culture Kids

Third Culture Kids (TCKs): Focus of Major Study
A research project on adult-TCKs who are between 25 and 90, who currently reside in the United States, and who spent at least one school-age year abroad as the minor dependent of an American parent.


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Unrooted Childhoods : Memoirs of Growing Up Global
Unrooted Childhoods : Memoirs of Growing Up Global
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In this one collection you will find not only the best of the internationally known literati who write about this experience (Pico Ayer, Isabelle Allende, Carlos Fuente...) but also the fresh and vibrant writings of lesser known yet equally powerful writers (Faith Eidse, Sara Taber, Camilla Trinchieri ...)
 
At Home in Asia : Expatriates in Southeast Asia and Their Stories
At Home in Asia : Expatriates in Southeast Asia and Their Stories
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Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
Third Culture Kids
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