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Homeschooling
Teaching your own children: the subjects that are hardest to cover at home, how to tell whether something has landed, and how to keep going without burning out.
Homeschooling
How to homeschool a subject you never learned yourself
You do not need to know the subject to teach it well. You need a source that does, a way to check understanding, and the honesty to say when you are lost.
Oct 3, 20268 min read
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Homeschooling statistics: how many families, and who they are
How many American children are homeschooled, how fast that number grew after 2020, and why two credible sources give very different answers.
Oct 3, 20265 min read
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What a realistic homeschool week actually looks like
Home education takes far fewer hours than school does. Here is how the time actually divides, by age, and why the schedule that works is the one with slack in it.
Oct 3, 20266 min read
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How to teach high school biology at home
A full-year plan for homeschooling biology: what to cover, how to handle labs without a school lab, and how to make it count for a transcript or an AP exam.
Oct 3, 20266 min read
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How to homeschool without burning out
Burnout is rarely about the teaching. It is about carrying every role at once with no slack, no adult conversation, and no way to tell whether it is working.
Oct 3, 20266 min read
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How to tell whether your child actually understands something
Recognition feels like understanding and is not. Four checks that separate a child who knows an idea from one who has memorised its words.
Oct 3, 20266 min read
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How a homeschooler sits an AP exam
Homeschooled students can take any AP exam, but they must find a school willing to host them, and the arrangements start in the autumn rather than the spring.
Oct 3, 20265 min read