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Reed, Jean.

The home school source book / Jean and Donn Reed.

3rd ed.

Bridgewater, ME : Brook Farm Books, 2000.

480 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Contains everything needed to create a successful school at home and provides information on where to get the best materials available.

Home schooling -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Teaching -- Canada -- Aids and devices -- Catalogs.

Teaching -- United States -- Aids and devices -- Catalogs.

Catalogs.

Handbooks and manuals.

Reed, Donn.

"This book incorporates material previously published, in somewhat different form, in The First Home-school Catalogue (1982, 1986), "efficient instruction elsewhere" (1984), The Home-school Challenge (1985), The Home School Source Book, (first ed. 1991; second edition, rev., 1994), The Homeschooling Book of Answers, by Linda Dobson; Homeschooling: An Open House, by Nancy Lande; and Home Education Magazine, Harrowsmith, Nurturing, The New Nativity, and other periodicals."--Title page verso

Includes index.

Why We Teach at Home -- Why the Movement Has Grown -- "We Would Better Wait and See" -- Permission to Teach at Home -- Homeschooling and Education -- Homeschooling and "Cultural Literacy" -- Structure -- Obedience Training vs. "Invited Learning" -- Discipline -- Kidding Around -- Reading, Writing, and Spelling -- Pesky Pronouns -- History and Biography -- Religion in History -- A World of Fun -- More Expensive by the Dozen -- Mathematics -- Why We Closed One of Our Bank Accounts -- Censorship and Conspiracies -- Please, Don't Color My World -- Philosophy and Religion -- Computers -- Television -- High School -- Adolescent Problems and Transitions -- To College or Not -- Testing -- Our Way -- Mission Impossible -- Reflections -- Tribute to Donn -- I Met Her on the Bus -- That Bus Ride -- Catalog and Directory -- Support Groups, Organizations, and Correspondence Schools -- Special Education -- Living With Chronic and Terminal Illness -- Reference Books for the Whole Family -- Free and Almost-Free Learning Aids -- Useful Catalogs -- Useful and Interesting Magazines -- Resources for the Early Years -- Learning the English Language -- Literature -- History and Biography -- Geography -- Mathematics -- Business and Economics -- Science -- Ecology -- Current Events -- Politics and Government -- Multicultural Resources -- Global Awareness -- Philosophy and Religion -- Arts and Activities--Holidays and Gifts -- Music -- Languages -- Computers -- Television -- High School -- College and Alternatives.

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