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Below are links to more than one hundred other Web pages, beginning with other pages on this Learn in Freedom! ^TM site, followed by links to other sites about education reform, homeschooling, or other interesting subjects.

Learn in Freedom! Pages

Below are links to other main pages on this Learn in Freedom! ^TM site, listed by the order in which they have received visits in a recent two-month period. (Some of the pages listed link to subpages that are not listed here.) Most of these pages have recently been updated. Visit one of the pages you haven't visited before, and see something new and thought-provoking.

Sites on Education Reform

SCHOOLREPORT.COM. Get involved!: URL: http://www.schoolreport.com/
Schoolreport.com is put together mostly by an experienced teachers who seek an education system that better meets the needs of learners. Some great research references are linked to from the schoolreport.com site.
Education Policy Institute: URL: http://www.educationpolicy.org
Interesting new site by one of the best research organizations on education policy in the United States, featuring many writings by Myron Lieberman and Charlene Haar.
A Citizen's Guide to Education Reform -- School Choices: URL: http://www.schoolchoices.org
Thought-provoking site by an independent scholar with a broad interest in education policy.
Free Minds Require Free Markets - Chris Cardiff: General-interest education reform site by a computer expert with several famed on-line publications about education policy.
Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO): Site for organization founded by Jerry Mintz, a tireless researcher of alternative education.
New Hampshire Politics Education Links: Political activism, information, and resources for education reformers in New Hampshire.
National Center for Education Information: How to get beyond the propaganda about education to learn some of the verifiable facts.
SFS-Links in die USA: Links page on a Switzerland site with better links to United States education reform sites than most sites based in the United States.

Homeschooling Sites

On-Line Discussion Groups

Whether it's education reform, homeschooling, or some other issue brought up on this site that you want to discuss, on-line discussion groups are a great place to raise questions or ask for opinions. I participate in some (but not all) of the groups mentioned on this site's On-Line Discussion Groups page.

Homeschooling Resources Sites with Helpful Information

Home Schooling Daily: Title of Site: Home Schooling Daily
URL: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~baugust/
Web site with much continually updated content on varied subjects by Belinda Augustus. Note that the URL for this popular site has recently changed.
Classical Christian Homeschooling: Information about the classical approach to homeschooling, a popular site.
Paula's Archives: Interesting collection of homeschooling tips gathered by Paula, with especially helpful information about the Sonlight Curriculum materials.
Eclectic Homeschool Online: On-line homeschooling magazine "for creative homeschoolers," with feature articles, resources, reviews, a topical Web link index, and more. I particularly like the review of the Robinson curriculum.
Family Unschoolers Network: Another site with interesting links, by a homeschooling couple who also publish an interesting print newsletter.
Homeschool Help at Sassafrass Grove: General Resource site on homeschooling on Angelfire, which like Geocities puts obnoxious pop-up ads on Web pages. (You get what you pay for, sometimes.) If I recommend an Angelfire or Geocities site on this page, it means the site is worth putting up with the ads for, or in a few cases that the site has been properly programmed to keep the ads from appearing.
Montessori Homeschooling: Resource site on using Montessori approaches in education, with a page specifically about homeschooling.

Sites with Good Lists of Links

Jon's Homeschool Resource Page: Jon's Homeschool Resource Page, now a whole site with hundreds of pages and countless links to other sites, necessarily comes at the top of this list. Jon's site is just about the oldest homeschooling site on the Web, and it is continually updated. Jon's Homeschool Resource Page has as large a set of homeschooling links as I can recall seeing anywhere, and I've seen a lot of homeschooling sites. One of the really innovative features of Jon's site is a database of homeschooling resource sites (including this one) with ratings for each site. His site also includes a useful page with links to Web-based homeschooling Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) pages, so that you and everyone else can look up the answers to the questions most commonly asked about homeschooling. Jon's site set up a new frames-based navigation scheme in 1997 for finding the site's many categories of links. I have to note for the record that I don't find sites with frame-based navigation bars as easy to navigate as sites with table-based navigation bars, but the frames probably make it harder for people to plagiarize the excellent material on Jon's site, and I've been told that people get used to the navigation of Jon's site with practice.
Homeschool FindIt!: Homeschool FindIt! (http://www.computerage.net/homeschool/findit/) is a searchable database of a large number of homeschooling Web pages, tirelessly tracked down by the Homeschool FindIt! volunteer staff. This could be the basis for something the on-line homeschooling community really needs: a source for finding homeschooling pages that is more comprehensive than Yahoo's list of homeschooling pages (or any other page listed here) and yet more focused and orderly than using "homeschooling" by itself as a search term or even using "homeschooling" and any other term or terms to search for Web pages with the large on-line search engines, which turn up too much. Try Homeschool FindIt!, I think you'll like it. Get other Web masters (especially those with really good sites) interested in submitting their homeschooling-related sites to Homeschool FindIt!, so researchers can find the best on-line resources. The Web is becoming a haystack too big for finding for finding the best needles; but we can help change that.
Finding Homeschool Support on the Internet: URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8259/index.html
Finding Homeschool Support on the Internet is a valuable resource by an old on-line friend and mentor of mine. I like Finding Homeschool Support on the Internet for its clear organization and useful categorization of different kinds of on-line resources. It won a four-star ("the best") rating from Yahoo Internet Life magazine in November 1997. Finding Homeschool Support on the Internet deserves a place in your favorites folder (or on your bookmark list), because you'll find many other useful resources there. In my opinion, after viewing hundreds of homeschooling Web sites, Finding Homeschool Support on the Internet's example of table-based (not frame-based) site navigation is worthy of imitation by any Web site that wants to use tables.
Greek 'n' Stuff for Homeschool and Christian School: URL: http://www.greeknstuff.com/
Greek 'n' Stuff is a site about learning Greek or Latin at home that also includes a huge links page. The newest product produced by the keeper of that site is a workbook series called Latin's Not So Tough!. I have had many parents tell me they like the Greek 'n' Stuff products, and I sure like the links page. My son may start learning Greek soon (I already know Greek), so in a few years I'll have a personal testimonial to go with those of other Greek 'n' Stuff customers.
France and Associates--Homeschooling Information: The France and Associates site has several interesting pages related to homeschooling, and a fine links page. I particularly like the book reviews page with its copyrighted reviews of homeschooling books. This site was favorably reviewed in the November 1997 Yahoo Internet Life review of homeschooling sites.
HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES (Bill Beaty's Homepage): Main Heading of Page: HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES (SCIENCE, MOSTLY)
Title of Page: HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES (Bill Beaty's Homepage)
URL: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/home.html
HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES (Bill Beaty's Homepage) is a page with links to resources on homeschooling, education, and especially about science prepared by Bill Beaty for homeschoolers, especially homeschoolers looking for science resources for learners of all ages.
Misc. Sites for Homeschoolers: Good links page on Homeschool Central, a comprehensive homeschooling resources site with some graphics-laden pages.
Links to Home Education Resources: Links page on an interesting and frequently recommended homeschooling site kept by Fred Worth of the HSTUAC mailing list.
Connecticut Homeschool: Rich Shalvoy's Connecticut Homeschool page has information on much more than Connecticut. Rich has recently updated his huge list of homeschooling resources, one of the oldest on-line FAQs about homeschooling in the world, and one of the most useful. The resource list now includes Web links to most of the resources listed. Rich's site also includes photo tours of Connecticut, for some interesting local color.
Michael's Home Education Home Page: Interesting page by a New Hampshire homeschooler, with links to official State of New Hampshire sites that refer to official statistics on homeschooling there. This site has a growing number of useful pages, including Michael's Home Education Testing Page, a you-can't-afford-to-miss-it page with links to on-line examples of state tests given to schoolchildren. Michael's site has other great links, including one to an archive of his famous Homeschooling in the News series of links to on-line articles about homeschooling.
Yahoo's Home Schooling Directory: So far this is the most plagiarized homeschooling site on the Internet. Many people, in violation of all honor and of the law, post the Yahoo links and descriptions as their own link pages. The Yahoo editors are deluged by requests from Web masters to index insignificant sites, requests the Yahoo editors tend to reject. But recently the Yahoo editors have caught up (for the fourth time) with updating and restructuring many of their directory pages, including the homeschooling page, removing many formerly listed sites. Yahoo is necessary, although not an exhaustive guide to the Web (or even a guide only to what is best), because full-text keyword searches on other Web indexes turn up too much chaff and too little wheat most of the time. The Yahoo homeschooling directory is, at the very least, a fairly good guide to which homeschooling sites started early, which may be (with some glaring exceptions) the same sites that are still ahead of the pack. And now that Yahoo is teamed up with Google, the best full-text search engine, Yahoo searches are even better than before at helping people find good sites about homeschooling.
Home Schooling: A directory of the Open Directory Project, which has been edited by several editors over the years and lists this site as a cool site.
AltaVista Home Schooling Directory with LookSmart ratings: AltaVista's Looksmart-enhanced version of the Open Directory homeschooling directory is a useful guide to a considerably greater variety of homeschooling sites than Yahoo, and it has site ratings by real-live human editors. The AltaVista directory lists this site as a top homeschooling site.
A to Z Home's Cool - Homeschooling Web Site: This site is full of links, and kept by the former Mining Co. homeschooling guide.
Homeschooling -- Who Me?: A Waymarks subject guide.

On-Line Articles about Homeschooling

A reader suggested I reorganize this section of this links page; now see the section listing on-line articles about homeschooling included in this site's Articles on Homeschooling page.

Homeschooling Sites around the World

United States Homeschooling Sites

National Sites

Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA): HSLDA is one of the oldest membership organizations for homeschoolers throughout the United States, and it has a large, informative Web site. I strenuously disagree with the approach taken to the Web site's design, which uses too many ASP pages and way too many useless graphics, which frequently makes it impossible for me to access the site's content at all because of slow access speeds. My friendly suggestion to the HSLDA Web master would be to read and apply the advice about Web site usability found on the Useit.com site (http://www.useit.com), which I recommend to everyone. Some of the information on the HSLDA site is unique and very interesting, if you can stand the wait for the download. I particularly like the Rating Colleges & Universities by their Home School Admission Policies document although I've sometimes had a very bad time calling it up from HSLDA's Web server.
National Home Education Network (NHEN): NHEN was founded in 1999 consciously as an alternative to HSLDA. It strives primarily to be a national information-sharing network in support of "inclusive" statewide and local support groups. The NHEN site has substantially better site design than the meager average level among homeschooling sites, making finding information on that site quite easy even from across the Pacific. NHEN has no paid professional staff, so its Web site grows slowly as volunteers add content. There is already an interesting round-up of state homeschooling laws on the NHEN site.

California

California Homeschool Network: Site of an inclusive network of California homeschoolers.

Connecticut

Connecticut Homeschool: Rich Shalvoy's Connecticut Homeschool page has information on much more than Connecticut. Rich has recently updated his huge list of homeschooling resources, one of the oldest on-line FAQs about homeschooling in the world, and one of the most useful. The resource list now includes Web links to most of the resources listed. Rich's site also includes photo tours of Connecticut, for some interesting local color.

Minnesota

Minnesota has two statewide homeschooling organizations with helpful Web sites and a growing number of homeschoolers.

Missouri

Missouri has better-than-average laws about homeschooling and plenty of parents participate in homeschooling. There are some great statewide resource pages put up by individual families.

New Hampshire

Michael's Home Education Home Page: Interesting page by a New Hampshire homeschooler, with links to official State of New Hampshire sites that refer to official statistics on homeschooling there. This site has a growing number of useful pages, including an archive of the Web master's famous Homeschooling in the News series of links to on-line articles about homeschooling.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Homeschoolers: Site of Pennsylvania homeschooling organization with massive number of interesting pages.

Virginia

Virginia has a great Web site kept by one of its statewide homeschooling organizations and a growing number of homeschoolers.

Canadian Homeschooling Sites

British Homeschooling Sites

The United Kingdom has various homeschooling organizations, with informative Web sites.

New Zealand Homeschooling Sites

NZ Home Education: Multipage site about homeschooling in New Zealand by an experienced New Zealand homeschooler whom I first "met" on-line before the Web was widely known, on a commercial on-line service. Much interesting information from a country with a high proportion of children being homeschooled.

South African Homeschooling Sites

Home Schooling Resources in South Africa (Tuiskool Hulpbronnein Suid-Afrika): Informative site about the growing homeschooling movement in South Africa, with many contact addresses.

Australian Homeschooling Sites

Australian Home Education Page: Eleanor Sparks, organizer of a 1998 national Natural Learning Conference in Australia, has kept this site for a few years, now at this new location.

French Homeschooling Sites

Paris Homeschool Network: English-language site of homeschooling group in Paris, France.

Businesses of Interest to Homeschoolers

This list does not pretend to be exhaustive. Here I'm listing, alphabetically, a few homeschooling suppliers that are recommended repeatedly by many different homeschoolers, about which I have some personal knowledge as a customer or reader of their Web sites.

Apologia Educational Ministries: Interesting site about high-school-level science materials, from a Christian, creationist perspective.
Elijah Company: Homeschooling materials publisher and bookseller with a very informative catalog full of interesting articles. Run by Chris Davis, an old on-line friend of mine whom I've met once or twice in person, and his family. I have bought books from Elijah Company and plan to do so again.
FUN Books: Homeschooling materials publisher and bookseller with interesting catalog of particular interest to unschoolers. They sell the excellent Miquon Math materials I use with my oldest son. Run by Billy and Nancy Greer, on-line friends of several years who I've met at at least two homeschooling conferences in the eastern United States. They take credit cards and have dealt with international shipping before.
Greenleaf Press: Homeschooling materials publisher and bookseller. Run by Rob Shearer, an old on-line friend of mine whom I have yet to meet in person, who has a strong interest in history. The Web site includes many interesting articles, including the hilarious song parody "On the Cover of the Teaching Home."

Homeschooling Family Sites

The families are listed alphabetically by family name.

Fraker Family Homeschool Page: Interesting site by one of the first homeschooling families to have its own Web site.
Johnson Family Homeschool: Family site about homeschooling.
The May Family Home Page: Family homeschooling site by a computer-aware Texas family.
Teel Family Homeschool Page: Interesting, visually appealing site by an Alaskan family, one of the first to have its own home page.

Library Sites with Information about Education Reform or Homeschooling

Homeschooling: Homeschooling information page of the Michigan Electronic Library.
MCPL Children's Services - Sites for Home Schoolers: Homeschooling reference page at Monroe County Public Library in Indiana.
Minneapolis Public Library Subject Tree - Social Sciences: Education: Subject list of Internet resources at the Minneapolis Public Library in Minnesota.
WTPL Children's Services Sites for Parents & Educators: Page linked to Waterford Library Home Page of Michigan.

Sites That Link to This Site

I have compiled a page of Pages That Link to the Learn in Freedom! Site to ensure that sites that link to this site get a reciprocal link.

[Learn in Freedom! Education Reform, Home-Schooling Links page rewritten 17 August 2000; last revision 12 October 2000]

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