Home schooling shaped a Minnesota family's life
Jean Aggerbeck chose homeschooling for daughter Kristen after moving often and trying several schools. Kristen studied at home through sixth and seventh grade, aided by music lessons and bakery work, finding both more freedom and some loneliness at age 16. Jean, a former preschool teacher, notes homeschooling works even without teacher training when a support network is available.
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Jean Aggerbeck
Aggerbecks
Mahtomedi
Minn
Jean
Kristen
Minnesota
Tips for choosing an alternative school or home schooling
Emily Swartzlander outlines factors for selecting schooling outside public institutions. Experts urge knowing the child, researching options, evaluating governance and mission, visiting schools, and exploring financial aid or scholarships. The piece cites resources and a family’s experience with home schooling and later school transfer.
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Jerry Mintz
Alternative Education Resource Organization
Bruce Hammond
Ivillage.com
Hammond
Scholarships Online Guide to Free and Obscure Aid
A guide explains how to use free scholarship databases to find funding for college. Experts warn that catalogs are imperfect and fragmented, but free sites help students compare criteria, beware paid fees, and run multiple searches to maximize opportunities amid highly competitive awards.
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Pennsylvania
Benjamin Kaplan
Kaplan
Harvard University
Laureen Grieve
Fast Web Inc
Young Shin
Embark.com
Shin
McDowell County Schools Food Service Overview and Prices
McDowell County schools participate in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. In 1999 2000 term 927871 meals were served to students with 51 cooks supporting operations. Meal prices: breakfast 75 cents full, 30 cents reduced. lunch 125 cents elementary, 150 cents secondary full price, 40 cents reduced. Adult meals cost 150 breakfast and 225 lunch. Free and reduced meals require annual applications and Direct Certification identifies some students as eligible for free meals without an application.
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McDowell County
Department of Human Resources
New school year brings new role for technology
Freshmen at College of Mount St. Joseph will receive hand held PCs to take tests and notes, email professors, read texts, catch up on lectures, and write papers. The program, funded by a $250 semester technology fee, aims to save lab costs and expand wireless access beyond the campus.
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College of Mount
Joseph
Cincinnati
Mark Cain
Northwestern University
Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
American Council On Education
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Unext.com
Illinois
Virginia
Michigan
California-Berkeley
McGraw Hill
U.S
VarsityBooks.com
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Emily Swartzlander
Scripps Howard Foundation
Mintz
Alternative Education Resource Center
Stillwater
Aggerbeck
Peter
Raleigh St. Bluefield
Chicory Square
Don & Emma Cooper
Food Service
Virginia School OF Massage
Vasom.com
Blacksburg
Niair
School of Massage
Blacksburg ST
By Lisa Hoffman
Scripps Howard News Service
Holloway
Brick Street
Princeton
SUN
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