This page was last updated: December 16, 2011
Home School for High School
with Kathleen Duncan
Since 2001

Braintrack.com
Fantastic site for researching college and career options!  They have information on thousands of colleges around the world.  They also have information about various career fields - including education requirement, salaries ranges, descriptions of typical jobs in a variety of fields and much more.  They also have information about scholarships.  You can search by state, religion, country, field of study or just the name of the school you.

Petersons.com
For a small fee, you can take three practice CLEP Exams in any one subject over a 90 day period.  This is a great way to find out if your student is ready to pass one of these exam.

DaveRamsey.com
Dave Ramsey if the author of The Total Money Makeover and the Financial Peace University.  He is hosts a popular radio show on finances. 

Their mission statement is: The Lampo Group, Inc. is providing Biblically based, common sense education and empowerment which gives HOPE to everyone from the financially secure to the financially distressed."


Toastmasters International
Toastmasters is an international organization that helps teach people oral communication and leadership skills.  A great way to have your teen complete a credit of Speech and Communications!

Donnayoung.org
Great site for homeschoolers.  Donna has schedules for Apologia Science, lots of worksheets & helps for home school families.  If you have not visited her site, check it out.

InstaCert.com
This site has practice questions for dozens of CLEP and DSST exams.  You pay one monthly price for unlimited access to the site.   Students study the database of questions and are shown the correct answer each time. This is a wonderful study tool.  If you enter the Discount Code  73377, you will receive $5 off you first month.

Teen Pact
TeenPact.com
"TeenPact is a comprehensive leadership experience that challenges students to grow both personally and spiritually. During TeenPact, students will enjoy meeting and interacting with other Christian young people and leaders from across their state. Students will come away from TeenPact with a realization of their spiritual capacity as young people and a desire to change America for Christ."
"Teen Pact's mission is to train young people to be leaders who will impact the nation and the world."


Master’s Academy of Fine Arts
mafa.net
The Master's Academy of Fine Arts is a full fine arts program geared to homeschooled children ages 5-18. Meeting just one day per week for three hours, children are exposed to the arts from an historical perspective. Each year the arts are taught from a specific time period beginning with Ancient Civilizations, then moving on to the Medieval/ Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods through a six year cycle. Each year is self-contained so a student need not be involved for the full six years, nor do they need to begin at the Ancient Civilizations period to gain a benefit from the program.
If you are interested in started a Master's Academy in your area, check out their website!
Our kids loved Master's!


Crown Financial Ministries
This is the ministry which resulted from the merger of Christian Financial Concepts (founded by Larry Burkett) and Crown ministries.

Vision:  Crown's vision is to teach 300 million people - 30 million Americans and 270 million people internationally - to handle money from God's perspective by September 2015.

Mission: Teaching people God's financial principles in order to know Christ more intimately and to be free to serve him.

Values:
Christ-Centered
Word-Based
Prayer-Driven
Relationship-Designed
Church-Focused
Servant-Led
Excellence-Developed
Generations-Intended


On this page are a few of my favorite web sites. 
Check them out!
Go to the
Curriculum Companies
page for info and reviews of some of our favorite curriculum!
www.nogreaterjoy.org - Parenting Helps

www.home-school.com - Practical Homeschooling Magazine

www.teachinghome.com - Teaching Home Magazine

www.HOME-ED-MAGAZINE.com - Home Education Magazine’s web site.  They have some good information and lists of local support groups around the nation.


Some of our favorite news web sites
or current events:

www.studentnewsdaily.com

www.worldmag.com - World magazine on-line

www.drudgereport.com - The Drudge Report, this guy has news before eveyone else gets it.  He has stuff no one else will have as well.  Many major news sources use Drudge as one of their sources!

www.economist.com - Economist Magazine Online 

www.fee.org - Free Economics Education Foundation

www.nationalreview.com - National Review Magazine

www.cato.org - Cato Institute

http://people-press.org/ - Pew Research Center for People and the Press

www.memri.org - translations of Arab newspapers



Hewitt Homeschooling Resources
This is a Non-profit Christian organization that helps homeschool families.  Your child can take all of their courses through Hewitt or just take a few.  Hewitt will provide a syllabus for each course and they do the grading.  Students have four quarters to complete most classes.  Their prices are very reasonable.  They use many popular homeschool texts for their classes: Beautiful Feet, Saxon Math, Apologia Science, Critical Thinking.  You can get more info at their web site.


The American School of Correspondence
“The American School, a pioneer in Distance Education. Since 1897 it has been providing opportunities for people who have needed a different approach to reaching their educational goals. In the last half century alone, over 200,000 individuals have received their High School diploma through our High School Programs, and thousands more have taken individual subjects with us through their local High Schools for graduation. Whether you call it Distance Learning, home study, alternative education or home schooling, The American Schools' High School Home Education Program, offers you the options to consider.”

New Yahoo Group for Home School for High School Families!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClepandCollegePrepforHomeschool/

To join:
ClepandCollegePrepforHomeschool-subscribe@yahoogroups.com