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Lamberts to Speak in Waco
 Tim and Lyndsay Lambert will be speaking at the Greater Waco Christian Home Educators' meeting September 20, in Waco. Their topics will be Homeschooling: A Vision for the Family and Learning to Love Learning. |
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Texas Supreme Court Favors Religious Schools in Decision
 THSC legal counsel, Shelby Sharpe, has announced what he considers his most momentous court victory since the Leeper decision which clarified in that 1994 Texas Supreme Court Case that home schools in Texas are private schools. In this most recent case, seminaries had sued the state of Texas, after fines and sanctions were imposed on them for conferring diplomas for religious studies completed by students, even though the schools had not sought or accepted state approval for their programs. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that the state may not control religious schools.
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NHERI - Working for Home Schoolers
The National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), founded by Dr. Brian Ray in 1990, is an organization dedicated to collecting and publishing research about home schooled students nationwide. It also provides speakers for home schooling and other types of conferences who speak about home schooling research; gives seminars and lectures on how to teach your children at home; does state- and national-level research about the home schooling community; and speaks to the media (television, radio, newspaper, etc.) about home schooling issues.
NHERI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information about NHERI's services, to subscribe to Home School Researcher, to get started in your own home schooling, or if you would like to obtain information about home schooling research, you can contact the institute:
National Home Education Research Institute
PO Box 13939
Salem, OR 97309
phone (503) 364-1490
fax (503) 364-2827
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Virginia Home Schoolers in Public School Clubs
"Say you're a home-schooled student, but you want to learn about photography, and think the best way to learn, barring lessons on dad's bulky Polaroid, is working on the high school yearbook.
"Impossible, right? Home-schoolers in high school clubs?"
Read the article....
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Membership Benefit: Discount on Transcript Pro
 Joining the Texas Home School Coalition Association provides more than just a group of dedicated people committed to easing your educational journey. You can also take advantage of several benefits. One of these is a 10% discount on the computer program Transcript Pro. This phenomenal CD-ROM software includes a built-in Carnegie Unit calculator, which makes it easy to assign credits, a GPA Calculator that tallies a running grade point average, and Inge Cannon's detailed instructions ($49 value). Don't reinvent the wheel - make transcript generating stress-free with Transcript Pro. (Click on the graphic for more information about the program.)
Take advantage of this and other time- and money-saving benefits!
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A Merry Heart Doeth Good...
Reprinted with permission. Taken from the Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons www.familymanweb.com |
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"Concerned" Citizens Express Anxiety in Letter to Tim Lambert
 Tim Lambert received the following e-mail from two concerned citizens:
My husband and I recently met a couple in an RV park that had a set of twin girls that were 9 years old. They told us they were home schooling these girls. The girls could not write, read or count!!! We went to the web to find out what the Texas criteria is for home schooling and found your website and began reading. The more we read the more we were appalled. You condone, sanction and counsel illiteracy!!! For the first time we were not proud of being Texans....
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Why Math Matters
Robert Cook
In 1999, a certain group of people neglected some fundamental mathematic procedures, along with some of their own checks and balances, with very unfortunate and expensive consequences. They neglected some important steps that anybody learning math, including home schoolers, should follow. These people were the engineers and flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), part of the California Institute of Technology, under contract to NASA for the Mars Climate Observer spacecraft. So it can happen to the best!
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