So now your children know how to read. Congratulations! That’s a major step, but does it mean that their reading instruction finished? Not at all, we’ve found. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading teaches the average reader how to understand, analyze, and learn from books. It takes students beyond […]
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Review: Thriving at College by Alex Chediak
“I pray,” writes Alex Chediak in Thriving at College, “…that by God’s grace my life and this book will be used of God in some small way to help Christians thrive at college, maximize their God-given potential, embrace full-orbed adulthood, faithfully develop their talents, and take their places as salt and light in God’s […]
Curriculum Choice Review: Comprehensive Record Solution
The prospect of getting homeschooled kids into university can seem quite frightening. I was recently talking with a mom who is going to do online public school so that her children will have ‘the right courses’ to enter university. She was cheerfully determined to follow this course, so I didn’t try to dissuade her, but […]
Review: Comprehensive Record Solution by Lee Binz
Occasionally I hear of well-qualified homeschool graduates not being accepted into universities because their records were not clear and convincing. And I hear of parents who quit homeschooling for fear of this, or who are too overwhelmed by it all to continue. These things don’t need to happen. You can keep on homeschooling, and your […]
Is this Course Grade 11, Grade 12, or AP?
A question came up while I was preparing my review of Apologia high school science: “Since the advanced Apologia courses are AP level, at what point has a student finished a ‘normal’ grade 12 course?” (AP stands for Advanced Placement level, representing courses that can be used by high school students to be credited for […]