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Homeschool Diploma |
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Homeschool Diploma offers complete graduation supplies for the graduating homeschooler. They carry diplomas, covers, announcements and invitations, caps, gowns, tassels, gifts, and more. |
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The College Board |
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The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 4,700 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves over three and a half million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program®(AP). |
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The Princeton Review |
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Search for schools and careers, find test preparation courses, get information on scholarships, and more. |
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Alternatives for 18-Year Old Homeschoolers |
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Larry and Susan Kaseman |
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Increasing numbers of homeschoolers (and conventionally-schooled young people) are choosing alternative ways of living and learning after they reach age 18. They are moving beyond the widespread assumption that high school graduates should either go to college, get a full-time job and live on their own, or join the military. Instead, many homeschoolers choose to build on and expand what they have been doing: learning through life experience; pursuing their passions; interacting with people of many different ages; and doing real work that contributes to their own growth and development and strengthens them, their families, and their communities.
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But What About the Prom? |
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Jackie Orsi |
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A frank discussion of the evolution of the prom "ideal" and how it relates to the broader issue of socialization. Missing out on a prom night could be a positive thing after all. |
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Commentary: A Day in the Life of a Homeschool High School Student |
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"What do you do all day?" "Do you get to sleep in every day?" "Do you ever see anybody besides your family?" "Do you do your schoolwork in your pajamas?" "Do you even do schoolwork when you don't feel like it?"
These are some of the questions I have been asked several times. So, to answer some of these, and others, I kept a journal of one day for me and my five siblings, which will hopefully give readers a better idea of what it is like to be a homeschooling high school student.
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How Do We Know When We're Done? |
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Cafi Cohen |
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If you attend high school, it's simple. From roughly the ages of 14-18, you sit in a chair six hours a day for 180 days each year. You study carefully balanced amounts of English, math, social studies, and science, and take extras like foreign language, physical education, and drama. Do all that with passing grades, and they give you a diploma.
But how do homeschooling families decide when their teenagers have completed high school? What combination of academic work, accomplishment, and time is enough? How do families evaluate their teenager's learning and decide What's Enough?
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Ten Reasons to Homeschool Through High School |
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Cafi Cohen |
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Cafi Cohen lists ten reasons to homeschool the older child, including efficiency, getting a head start on college, allowing for work experience, limiting peer pressure, and more. |
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Ungraduation |
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One mother's reminiscences about her son's high school years as an unschooler, and his transition to college. |
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Unschooling High School and College |
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Alison Mckee |
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Alison McKee began unschooling her two children over twenty years ago and from their family's experiences wrote the book "From Homeschool to College and Work: Turning Your Homeschooled Experiences into College and Job Portfolios." In this Frequently Asked Questions list, she discusses unschooling through high school and how this works when your child wants to head off to college. |
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