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Welcome to the October 2013 issue of Home-School News,
brought to you by Practical Homeschooling magazine
and our Homeschool World website at
www.home-school.com! 

Mary Pride
 Mary Pride, Publisher
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. VOTE: For the 2014 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards. You might win a prize!
2. AD: Time4Learning - Sharing A Few Member Experiences
3. MAGAZINE: Subscribe now while you can still get our Sept/Oct issue!
4. LATEST INFOGRAPHIC: Have you seen this new way to look at homeschool facts?
5. INFO: 62 new articles on our website
6. How to advertise with us
Rosetta Stone 2013
1. VOTE: Time to cast your ballot for the 2014 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards. You could win this great prize!

VOTING DEADLINE: October 15, 2013

  

It's time again to cast your vote for the best educational products for homeschoolers! To entice you to take the time to fill out and send in this ballot, we are offering a fabulous prize. But vote soon - all ballots must be completed and received before October 15, 2013!

  

Win Rosetta Stone Language Software!

You can win a prize just for participating! To encourage you to respond, we will select one ballot at random to receive the first level, Homeschool Edition, of the language of their choice from Rosetta Stone - a $159 value.

  

Yes, this is the same famous foreign-language software whose ads you have heard on the radio and seen in homeschool magazines.

 

How to Vote
Simply rate every product with which you are familiar on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 = pitiful and 10 = awesome. You can ignore those you haven't tried personally. At the bottom you'll be able to enter your name and contact info for the prize drawing. 

  

Your Vote Matters!
The results of this ballot get printed in a future issue, enabling all loyal PHS subscribers to see which educational software and websites other homeschoolers consider the very best in each category. Please, help your fellow homeschoolers by sending in your vote. Your opinion matters!

Just click here to get started.

 

T4L Seal-Now HS  
2. AD: Time4Learning - Sharing a Few Member Experiences 

 

We hope your homeschool year has gotten off to a great start! Ours certainly has. The addition of our new high school curriculum has brought a better response than we ever could have imagined, and we couldn't be happier!

 

And speaking of responses-- we thought we'd share a few stories we've received from a couple of the families who are currently using our curriculum to homeschool their kids. Perhaps their experiences will inspire you, help you in your journey, or answer questions you may have.

 

Read their stories here, check out other curriculum reviews of Time4Learning , or browse our curriculum.

  

 

PHS#110 cover
3. OUR MAGAZINE: Subscribe now before all our Sept/Oct issues are gone!

We have less than 650 copies left of this issue, and they are FLYING out the door! Subscribe now, and you can still get this as your first issue. It includes:

  • Follow the Money to the Common Core: Who is paying to produce it and promote it?
  • Databases & Dossiers: Why and how is the government ignoring our traditional laws about privacy for schoolkids' records?
  • CSCOPE, Part 2: Is this dreadful Texas program REALLY dead?
  • The 5 reasons schools are OK with not teaching every child to read. (And top phonics programs for teaching YOURS at home!)
  • 17 top tips for scheduling your homeschool day... and year
  • 5 new educational trends you should know about
  • 15 colleges your child can attend for FREE! 
  • Much, much more!

Click here to subscribe and receive up to FOUR exciting bonuses.

 

Click here to renew an existing subscription.

 

Click here to give a gift subscription.

HS Infographic Top  
4. LATEST INFOGRAPHIC: Have you seen this new way to look at facts about homeschooling?

Have friends or relatives who ply you with questions about homeschooling?

Looking for a bit of encouragement about your homeschool choice? 

  • See a bird's-eye view of homeschool history, from 1840 to now
  • Spot quick facts about how fast homeschooling is growing compare to public schooling
  • Fast facts about homeschool parents' educational levels, family size, reasons for homeschooling
  • Academic achievement statistics: how do homeschooled kids measure up? How much difference, if any, does a parent's education level, family income, or amount spent on homeschooling make to testing outcomes?
  • What homeschool grads say about their homeschool experience
  • Average homeschool cost per child
  • More!
First LEGO Group 5. INFO: New articles & fun facts on our website

As you know, we have tons of great infographics and articles on our website.

  

We recently added another 62 articles. Here are some of them:
  • What We Learned at First LEGO League  Do you have children who are drawn to building, inventing or programming? FIRST Lego League is a worldwide competition that introduces students to hands-on robotics and programming.

To read these, and over 800 other great articles, click here.

 

To check out our collection of homeschooling infographics, click here and scroll down the left-hand margin (where you'll find them).

6. How to advertise with us
Want to promote your product in our magazine, Practical Homeschooling, or on our website, Homeschool World� at www.home-school.com? Have a message you'd like to share with our list of over 25,000 email subscribers? 

If interested, just click here and fill out our Advertising Contact Form. We'll get back to you within a day or two.
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