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School Days at Texas Renaissance Festival Will Mix Education and Fun

School Days at Texas Renaissance Festival Will Mix Education and Fun

Community Events, Homeschool, Recommendations October 28, 2014 at 6:00 am

Next week, students at some Houston-area schools will visit the Texas Renaissance Festival for its 10th Annual School Days, an event in which the festival is open exclusively to groups from public, private, and home schools. This year’s School Days will be November 4-5, 9am-4pm. While Renaissance Festivals are notRead More

EdX High School Initiative is Groundbreaking Expansion into Online APs

EdX High School Initiative is Groundbreaking Expansion into Online APs

On Monday, the massive open online course (MOOC) platform edX opened registration for AP Biology: Part 1, the first course on the site which explicitly focuses on preparing students for an AP exam. The course has been made available in partnership with Rice University’s Center for Digital Learning and ScholarshipRead More

Spooky Stories and Poems to Teach Kids about Literature

Spooky Stories and Poems to Teach Kids about Literature

Goods for Teens, Homeschool, Recommendations October 21, 2014 at 10:52 pm

When I was a kid, my mom was constantly trying to find ways to make everything educational. From summer classes to seasonally appropriate readings, she was determined that her children should take every opportunity to learn more about the world. If you’re like her – and especially if you homeschoolRead More

Video Games in the Classroom

Video Games in the Classroom

Goods for Teens, Homeschool, Technology February 5, 2014 at 10:33 am

Soon after video games made the leap from the arcade to the personal computer, educational video games were introduced in schools. 1985 saw the release of Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego – the former designed to teach children about American history, the latter made toRead More

Home Schooling – A Guide to Getting Started

Homeschool, Recommendations March 30, 2011 at 11:33 am

The state of Texas treats home schools the same as non-accredited private schools.  To this extent, parents have great flexibility to teach or have an instructor teach their children in the manner that they see most fitting.  However, parents planning to interact with accredited public and private schools will wantRead More