by Spencer Mason | Jul 1, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
1 Jul 2015 One February morning a few years ago, I stood in my son’s bedroom looking at his Apologia biology textbook. He had been diligently working his way chapter by chapter through the book, and I was preparing to quiz him on the vocabulary and end of chapter...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 10, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
10 Jun 2015 What do Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Thomas Jefferson and John D. Rockefeller have in common? Not all of these individuals were professional scientists, but all of them used the same simple tool of scientific inquiry to pursue...
by Spencer Mason | May 27, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
27 May 2015 Spring is the time to take action if a home-educated child is interested in a military academy nomination or a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship leading to a commission as a military officer. Note that spring is specifically time to take...
by Spencer Mason | Apr 29, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
29 Apr 2015 As someone who deals daily with questions and concerns about testing homeschoolers, I have encountered a number of misconceptions and some erroneous information concerning testing of homeschoolers. I hope that this article will clear up some of these...
by Spencer Mason | Apr 22, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
22 Apr 2015 My son Michael wasn’t all that thrilled to be homeschooled the first year we started. He gave me a month and then took matters into his own hands. He said we needed to set a schedule. We were doing something different every day! He wanted to have math at...