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Bright Spot: Baking Her Way Into Business
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Bright Spot: Baking Her Way Into Business
When homeschooled high schooler Emily Savine decided to try baking cookies for profit, she didn’t realize that the “learning experience” would quickly turn into a lucrative business. Four months after launching an Internet-based homemade-cookie company, she has already received hundreds of orders from cookie lovers as far away as [...]
The Ward Family
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007The Ward Family of Tangiteroria, Northland
by Christine Ward
For the last twenty-seven years, I have spent my time tucked away in relative obscurity on an eleven-hundred acre sheep and beef farm in Tangiteroria, home schooling our three children. Commitments on the farm and in the community have meant that my husband’s involvement in this process has [...]
Home Educators Did It
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Home Educated or Privately Tutored Achievers:
(from Rainbow Resource Centre)
www.rainbowresource.com
Artists:
Claude Monet
Leonardo da Vinci
Jamie Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
John Singleton Copley
Inventors:
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Alec Issigonis
Cyrus McCormick
Wright Brothers
CWF Hamilton
Composers/Musicians:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Anton Bruckner
Felix Mendelssohn
Francis Poulenc
Conlon Nancarrow
Irving Berlin
Yehudi Menuhin
Scientists:
Blaise Pascal
Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Brooker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
Writers:
Agatha Christie
C.S. Lewis
George Bernard Shaw
Noel Coward
D.H. Lawrence
Hans Christian Anderson
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Margaret Mead
Sean O’Casey
Rumer Godden
Brett Harte
Phillis Wheatley
Mercy Warren
Pearl S. [...]