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Giving Proper Credit To Home-Schooled

In the pursuit of a homemade high school education, Jay Voris played drums in Guinea, Colin Roof restored a 134-year-old sailboat in Ireland, and Rebecca Goldstein wrote a 600-page fantasy novel and took calculus at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

The independent-minded Maryland students and two dozen others gathered at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Annapolis one afternoon this month for an alternative graduation ceremony that is becoming more common across the country as home schooling expands. Now the movement is gaining ground in a crucial arena: college admissions.

Goldstein, 18, of Ellicott City will be a full-time student at UMBC in the fall. Alan Goldstein said his daughter's idiosyncratic education distinguished her from "cookie cutter" applicants from conventional schools and helped her gain entrance into honors programs and win a full scholarship. Others at the June 2 ...

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6/16/07 2:33 PM

Jim Lincoln

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Christians interested in home schooling? This site is one to visit.

http://www.nchea.org/

6/15/07 2:49 PM

Jim Lincoln

| Nebraska

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This is an interesting article about home-schooling, and it isn't just about religious reasons for doing it either.

Religious home-schoolers should have standards that their children could easily get into Harvard, though they know they have a better choice in Bob Jones University.

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