Homeschooled in a truck; just graduated from Harvard
I was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered on a drive back from WCVE in Richmond, an NPR member station I work for part-time, and I was surprised to hear an unusual homeschooling story about a girl...
View ArticleHomeschool Scholarship Deadline Approaches
Homeschooled students who will be attending college full-time in the 2011-2012 academic year, as well as current college freshman and sophomores with younger sibling(s) still homeschooling, are...
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Norfolk Homeschooled Teen Wins Spelling Bee Again!
Congratulations to Caroline Willett, who won the Virginian-Pilot Spelling Bee for the second time in Norfolk on Saturday, February 11. She now heads to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which will...
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TIME Magazine Provides our Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Last night after Nick did some soccer training at Ukrop Park in Richmond, we went in the Martin’s grocery store. There, next to the sugar free gum in the checkout line, was a stack of TIME magazines,...
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A Day in Our Homeschooling Life
Post submission by VaHomeschooler’s Regional Coordinator in Boston, Virginia, Jennifer Wheelock. It’s Monday, so we’re in a rush to get our work done. We have to finish early so we can get to the...
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One Family’s Decision to Homeschool
Emma-Marie Dulog It’s summertime. It’s time for some decisions. We’ve all been there, sitting at the kitchen table, pros and cons list in front of us, making the big decision. Should we continue with...
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Teens Heard, Parents Heard
Compiled by Pamela Schmidt, Bluemont and Karen Phaup, Beaverdam Self-described author, educator, adventurer and entrepreneur Blake Boles was the keynote speaker at the 2015 VaHomeschoolers Conference...
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Cade Martin: World Travels with Model UN
By Katie Slavnik Casual dinnertime banter between Cade Martin, an 11th grader from Chesterfield, and his father, originally sprang from Cade’s natural interest in history. Over time, these...
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