The new curriculum is ordered. The pencils are sharpened. The schedule has been revised three times and may survive until Wednesday. But one question still sits in the back of your mind: Is my child actually ready for the next grade? Maybe math became a battle near the end of last year. Maybe reading improved,…
If you are reading this, you are probably weighing a decision that feels enormous. Pull your child out of public school and take their education into your own hands, or keep them in a system you are not entirely confident in and hope for the best. It is a big decision. But it does not…
You have made the decision. Or you are super close to it. Either way, you are here because you want to know how to start homeschooling and you want someone to give it to you straight. There are a lot of guides out there that will walk you through the basics: learn your state laws,…
At some point in your homeschool journey, someone is going to ask you how your kids are doing academically. It might be a family member. It might be a co-op. It might be your state. It might just be the voice in your own head at 10pm wondering if you are covering everything you should…
If you ask ten homeschool parents where to get a standardized test, at least half of them will say BJU Press. It is the most recognized name in homeschool testing. It has been around for decades. Your co-op probably recommends them. Your state homeschool organization might even link to them on their testing resources page….
If you have been researching homeschool testing, you have probably come across MAP Growth. It is offered to homeschool families through Homeschool Boss and it is, by most technical measures, the most modern standardized assessment available to homeschoolers today. MAP is adaptive. It adjusts the difficulty of questions in real time based on how your…
If the Iowa is the reliable workhorse of homeschool standardized testing, the Stanford 10 is the overachieving race horse. It is widely considered the most rigorous standardized achievement test available to homeschool families, and it has a reputation in the testing world that goes back decades. That rigor is real. The Stanford 10 covers more…
The Iowa Assessments have been around since the 1930s. In the homeschool world, saying you use the Iowa carries weight. It is one of the most widely recognized standardized tests in the country and for decades it has been the default recommendation from state homeschool organizations, co-ops, and veteran homeschool families. But reputation is not…
There is no shortage of standardized tests available to homeschool families. The problem is that most of them were never designed for you. The Iowa, the Stanford 10, the CAT, MAP Growth, the CLT, TerraNova. They all have long track records, impressive-sounding names, and endorsements from organizations that have been in education for decades. But…
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