Mary Nix on December 8th, 2006

World Pen Pals
The Largest educational pen friends movement in the world.
World Pen Pals offers students a unique , interesting and personal approach to global studies, foreign languages and language arts by direct correspondence with a new friend overseas.
They offer: Penfriends by gender/contintent. Correspondence is in English.
Questions: Phone/Fax (845) 246-7828 8am-8-pm E.T. seven [...]

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Mary Nix on August 4th, 2006

EDSITEment is “the best of the humanities on the web from the National Endowment for the Arts”.
This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world’s great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, [...]

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Valerie Bonham Moon offers some great hands on advice for learning another language at Home Education Magazine’s News and Commentary this week.
She writes:

On military homeschooling discussion lists, there is often the question of how to go about learning a foreign language, often German since that’s where many servicemembers are stationed. When we lived [...]

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Helen Hegener on September 14th, 2005

Homeschool Buyers Co-op
The Homeschool Buyers Co-op has officially opened it doors. President Brett Walter made the announcement August 20th at the 15th Annual Home Education Conference in Sacramento, California. With assistance from homeschoolers around the country the Co-op expects to grow its membership to 100,000 by the end of the year.
“The basic idea of the [...]

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Helen Hegener on May 2nd, 2005

Link: EDC Publishing.
In 1973, Peter Usborne decided that educational, nonfiction books would need to change in order to compete with TV and comics. He borrowed some ideas from these two media and hired educational consultants to oversee the writing to make sure that the books would satisfy the child’s interest but also arouse it.
Explanatory books [...]

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Helen Hegener on May 2nd, 2005

Link: Dorling Kindersley.
Thirty years ago,Dorling Kindersley (DK) took on the challenge of creating visually engaging books for children on subjects that would compliment their areas of study and personal interest. The award-winning Eyewitness Books, DK’s trademark series, which began in 1988, never fail to inform, excite and inspire both children and adults alike. The series, [...]

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