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Faces of Home Education Profile
The Pattern of Success
Homeschooler sews her way to a successful business
hosted by Joe Spataro

Homeschooler Jennie Chancey was able to take advantage of the flexibility offered by homeschooling to learn how to sew. She has turned this love into a successful business called Sense & Sensibility. I had the opportunity to interview Jennie and ask her a few questions about homeschooling, her vintage dressmaking business and how she is helping other homeschoolers to share in her love of vintage dressmaking.

Meet the Author
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling"
by Marsha Ransom
hosted by Joe Spataro
interview & FREE excerpt
Marsha Ransom, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling, is the mother of four children, two of whom have always been homeschooled. She serves as a homeschool resource for her local library and writes articles for Home Education Magazine, The Link: A Homeschool Newspaper, Women's International Net, and Homeschool Dad Magazine. In this interview on the Zone, Marsha discusses how she came to write this book, developing your program, homeschooling on a budget, what is happening with her homeschooled children, her future plans and a FREE excerpt which tells you how to set up a homeschool cooperative.

Meet the Author - Rebecca Rupp
Getting Started on Home Learning:
How and Why to Teach Your Kids
by Rebecca Rupp, Ph.D.
See the cyber interview
and a FREE excerpt of this book hosted by Joe Spataro
She has homeschooled her three sons for more than ten years. She is the author of Getting Started on Home Learning,  The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook and How We Remember and Why We Forget. She writes a monthly column for Home Education Magazine and produces and hosts a local homeschool television program. She is an active participant here on the Zone on our discussion group offering very sage and complete answers. In the interview, we ask a few questions that will give you more insight into Rebecca, and in the excerpt she shares some of her experiences in the early homeschooling movement.

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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The Big Book of Home Learning
by Mary Pride

Faces of Home Education Profile
"Horsing Around"
Homeschoolers in Puerto Rico
Rosana Cajiga De la Cruz from Puerto Rico shows her kids "horsing around" on a field trip. They are homeschoolers since 1998 and are part of local support group. The group has a monthly field trip which is both a fun and educational.
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