Teaching Parents Association - Meeting the Needs of Home Schooling Families

Where should I start my research?

taken from the CHECK website

You can get a great start at your local library or through your favorite bookstore.  The resources listed here are separated into homeschooling overviews, philosophy, legal issues and periodicals.

Overviews

Pride, Mary
Homeschool World

• The Big Book of Home Learning
  • Volume 1: Getting Started
  • Volume 2: Preschool and Elementary
  • Volume 3: Teen and Adult
  • Volume 4: Afterschooling
• Schoolproof
• The Way Home
• Prides’ Guide to Educational Software

Duffy, Cathy
Grove Publishing

• Christian Home Educators’ Curriculum Manual
  • Volume 1: Elementary Grades
  • Volume 2: Junior/Senior High

Moore, Raymond
The Moore Foundation

• The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook
• Home Style Teaching
• Home Spun Schools
• Home Grown Kids
• Home Built Discipline
• Better Late Than Early
• School Can Wait

Holt, John

• Teach Your Own

Wade, Theodore

• The Home School Manual

Shackelford, Luanne

• A Survivor’s Guide to Home Schooling

Harris, Gregg

• The Christian Home School

Ballman, Ray

• The How & Why of Home Schooling

Hendrickson, Borg

• Home School: Taking the First Step

Beechick, Ruth

• You Can Teach Your Child Successfully

Lopez, Diane

• Teaching Children: A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Sixth Grade

Philosophy

Klicka, Chris
Home School Legal Defense Association

• The Right Choice: The Incredible Failure of Public Education and the Rising Hope of Home Schooling

Fugate, Richard
The Foundation for Biblical Research

• What the Bible Says About....Child Training
• Will Early Education Ruin Your Child?
• Successful Home Schooling

Blumenfeld, Samuel

• How to Tutor

Macauley, Susan Schaeffer

• For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School

Colfax, David & Micki

• Homeschooling For Excellence

Wallace, Nancy

• Better Than School

Legal Issues

Whitehead, John

• Home Schooling and Constitutional Liberties

Farris, Michael
Home School Legal Defense Association

• Home Schooling and the Law
• Should Home Schoolers Obey the Law?
• Where Do I Draw the Line?
• The Homeschooling Father

Magazines and Newsletters

CHECK News (Monthly Newsletter)
P.O. Box 1332
Topeka, KS 66601
(785) 272-6655

TPA Homeschooler (Monthly Newsletter)
P.O. Box 3968
Wichita, KS 67201
(316) 201-4244

The TPA Homeschooler provides vital contact information about Wichita area sports, events, support groups, seminars, and many other opportunities.

• The Teaching Home - Check their site for e-mail newsletter and magazine back issue information.
• Practical Homeschooling Magazine - Subscribe online or call 1-800-346-6322.
• Moore Report - Newsletter from The Moore Foundation.  Call 1-800-891-5255 to subscribe.
• Growing Without Schooling - No longer in publication, but back issues are available.
• Home School Digest - New subscription and back issue information is available on their site.
• Home Education Magazine - See their site for subscription information.

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