North Carolina Homeschooling
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Homeschool Alliance of North Carolina Email List
Established in 2003, the Homeschool Alliance of North Carolina (HA- NC) is a grassroots network of independent homeschooling families in North Carolina. This email group offers members statewide a networking forum to connect with other homeschoolers in NC.
Home-Based Educators Charlotte
This is a secular support group for homeschoolers and unschoolers in Charlotte, NC and surrounding areas.
North Carolina Non-Public School Student Driving Eligibility Certificate Requirements
A non-public school student under age 18 currently and properly enrolled in that school and wishing to obtain a North Carolina driver's license or a learner's permit must first obtain a DEC issued from and signed by either the chief administrator (or his/her designee) of the conventional non-public school in which the student is enrolled, or from the chief administrator of the home school in which the student is enrolled. The student must obtain the signed DEC form no more than 30 days before t...
NCLOOP
The North Carolina Homeschool Loop was created in 1997 to provide a means for communication among North Carolina homeschoolers. Members are free to share their ideas, questions and/or concerns relating to homeschooling in North Carolina.
NCAfricanAmericanHomeschoolers
NCAfricanAmericanHomeschoolers is an online group that facilitates homeschooling discussions and networking.
NC Course of Study Graduation Requirements
This chart covers all of the options for meeting the graduation requirements to receive a diploma in the state of North Carolina.
§ 115C-564. Qualifications and requirements.
A home school shall make the election to operate under the qualifications of either Part 1 or Part 2 of this Article and shall meet the requirements of the Part elected, except that any requirement related to safety and sanitation inspections shall be waived if the school operates in a private residence and except that testing requirements in G.S. 115C-549 and G.S. 115C-557 shall be on an annual basis. The persons providing academic instruction in a home school shall hold at least a high school...
North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores
Located in Atlantic Beach, the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores is situated on 298 acres of maritime forest in the Theodore Roosevelt Natural Area. The 35,000-square-foot building houses aquariums ranging from 300 gallons to 12,000 gallons, a touch tank, interactive exhibits, classrooms, meeting rooms, a large auditorium and a gift shop. Outside is a natural marsh area and nature trail.
Cape Lookout National Seashore
The seashore is a 56 mile long section of the Outer Banks of North Carolina running from Ocracoke Inlet on the northeast to Beaufort Inlet on the southeast. The three undeveloped barrier islands which make up the seashore, North Core Banks, South Core Banks and Shackleford Banks, protect one of the few remaining natural coastal barrier island systems in the world. Its native grasslands comprise the only remaining natural grasslands in the eastern United States. Small populations of the endangere...
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
The battle fought here on March 15, 1781, was the largest, most hotly-contested action of the Revolutionary War's climactic Southern Campaign. The serious loss of British manpower suffered at Guilford Courthouse foreshadowed Lord Cornwallis's final defeat at Yorktown seven months later. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, the nation’s first national park established at a Revolutionary War site, preserves the 220-acre heart of the 1781 battlefield. Among the 28 monuments raised on the bat...
§ 115C-561. Duly authorized representative.
The duly authorized representative of the State of North Carolina to whom reports of commencing operation and termination shall be made and who may inspect certain records under this Part shall be designated by the Governor.
The Modern Homeschool Movement Nexus
It is important that homeschoolers know the early history of NCHE and homeschooling in NC. Homeschooling is now widely accepted in North Carolina as a good alternative method of education. It was a much different climate for home education in the early 1980s.
Lighthouse Educational Services
Lighthouse Educational Services offers standardized achievement testing, and consulting services to help you with curriculum development for your educational needs. Specializes in the Woodcock-Johnson III assessment test. They can also provide you with education consultations, customized testing packages for high school and students with learning differences, career counseling and assessments, and Christian counseling services.
Growing Scholars
8906 Belhaven Blvd. Suite B
Charlotte, NC 28214
Phone: 704-394-9441 or 1-866-694-9441
Growing Scholars carries curriculum, manipulatives, great books, games, science supplies and kits, audio learning aids, and more. They cover all of the major teaching philosophies from classical to unit studies and everything in between.
Homeschool Football League
The Homeschool Football League is excited to provide the country with a football program built on Christian values and devoted exclusively to homeschool families. For boys ages 6 to 18, the league offers flag football in the spring and fall, football camps in the summer, and contact football in the fall. The league is being expanded across the country.
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Total Language Plus
Total Language Plus is an innovative curriculum focused on teaching thinking and communication skills using literature as a base. The authors believe an integrated system is more efficient than a fragmented approach, discovery style learning is the m...
A Little Way of Homeschooling
This book is a compilation of the experiences of 13 different homeschoolers and how they incorporated an unschooling style of teaching in their homes. This book addresses the question of whether a Catholic can happily and successfully unschool. This ...
Crash-Proof Your Kids: Make Your Teen a Safer, Smarter Driver
Every year, six million sons and daughters will become first-time drivers. Fifty-eight percent of them will be involved in a car accident within a year of getting their license, and a significant portion of these crashes will be fatal. But here's the...
First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind
Includes scripted lessons and lovely illustrations to offer encouragement and understanding to children in grammar, copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical technique. These lessons will help develop the student's language ability and ...
Explode The Code
Explode The Code provides a sequential, systematic approach to phonics in which students blend sounds to build vocabulary and read words, phrases, sentences, and stories. Frequent review of previously learned concepts helps increase retention. Each w...
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Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Sir William Haley