We know that spring is the time when many homeschool families work on transcripts. To help out, we're offering a 20% discount on all Transcript Maker plans using the code SPRING2021. This is the second part of our 6-part series on the foundations of homeschool transcripts. Read part 1. Courses are the “meat” of a [...]
We all had a feeling that homeschooling was going to mushroom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, we have some hard statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau showing just how dramatic that growth has been. Overall, the numbers show a jump in U.S. homeschool households from 5.4% in spring of 2020 to 11.1% by the [...]
We know that spring is the time when many homeschool families work on transcripts. To help out, we're offering a 20% discount on all Transcript Maker plans using the code SPRING2021. It's April. That means the college application season is just around the corner. Is your family ready? If you're like a lot of people, the [...]
Are you a homeschool student considering online learning for college? That can be a great step to take: You can earn a degree or credential faster and for less cost, and potentially work at the same time, tucking away some money for the future. But being a remote learner in college also poses challenges. [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken remote learning fully mainstream. We can now see that millions of students—whether in a K-12 school or at college—can learn skills and obtain credentialing exclusively via the Internet. And thrive doing it! That’s not to say that distance learning doesn’t pose its challenges. It definitely does. I know firsthand. [...]
The primary purpose of education isn’t to impart knowledge. Instead, its purpose is to teach you how to learn. Does that concept sound like the utterings of a ninja master to his young apprentice? For sure! And at first look, it may even sound nonsensical. After all, when we think of K-12 schooling [...]