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New Jersey Homeschooling

You’ve found the best source of information on homeschooling in New Jersey. Look inside to find everything you need to successfully home educate your children, including New Jersey state homeschool laws, local homeschool support groups, information on homeschooling methods, ideas for special needs homeschooling, and much, much more! Browse through these pages to get started:

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Do I Need a Degree to Homeschool?

You should remember that you are the best person to give your child what he or she needs. Yes, you can homeschool, and yes, you are qualified. You are the best teacher for the job. You know your children better than anyone, love them more than anyone, and will do whatever it takes to help them thrive. 

How to Homeschool High School

Even seasoned homeschooling parents can feel unsteady about homeschooling high school. This resource and guide discusses all aspects of homeschooling through the high school years, including college preparation, choosing curriculum, how to plan, transcripts, and more. 

Christian Homeschooling an Only Child
This is a safe place for Christian families to share their hopes, joys, concerns and prayer requests as they homeschool an only child
A Fifteen Year Perspective
When Michael Farris and Michael Smith founded Home School Legal Defense Association in March of 1983, home schooling was just a tiny blip on the education radar screen. The concept of parents teaching their children at home was relatively obscure, and the families who chose to follow this non-traditional education route were fairly certain to face opposition from the educational bureaucracy and following legal entanglements, as well as from their own friends and family.
Sonlight Homeschool Preschool Curriculum
Finding the right homeschool preschool curriculum is important. For many children, this will be their first introduction to organized learning. Giving your child the right introduction to the world of knowledge can help them become life-long learners. To learn how to choose the right homeschool preschool curriculum for your child, consult the resources offered at Sonlight.
Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education
The Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education is a nonprofit organization which assists and encourages parental involvement in education, wherever that education takes place: in public school, in private school, or at home. AllPIE offers a newsletter (Options in Learning), annual conferences and retreats, a book catalog, workshops, lending library and more.
Shining Children with Radical Unschooling
This list is a forum for those either radically unschooling or learning how to radically unschool to discuss our "shining" children (Highly Sensitive, Out of Sync, Asperger’s traits, Explosive) and all the issues that accompany life with them--how we grow and learn ourselves thanks to our non-typical children and how unschooling frees their spirits and allows them to truly "shine."
How to Homeschool: When Your Child Has Already Been to School
Great tips and ideas for beginner homeschoolers with an emphasis on being flexible and open to new ideas. Discusses basic differences between the traditional school environment and homeschooling and how to adjust between the two.
Preschool Math: Teaching Numbers Greater than 10
How to make a homemade version of the Montessori seguin board, a board with lots of 10s in a column.
Ten Signs that You Need to Find a Different Kind of Education for Your Child
Because our public school system has now considerably deteriorated, many parents, teachers, and individuals have taken it upon themselves to create public and private alternatives to that traditional system which is definitely failing. It is important for parents to know that they now have choices, alternatives to the neighborhood school. How do you know that it is time to look for another educational approach for your child? Here are some of the signs.

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