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What’s Right and What’s Left?

by Cathy Jackson November 2, 2010

With November 2010 being a mid-term election month, we thought that this would be a good time to talk about the Right and Left of politics. Norma Swanson helped us with our topic, What’s Right and What’s Left? Norma is the founder and president of Window to the World, Inc. She is a long-time teacher [...]

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Sonlight Curriculum: Literature-based Homeschooling

by admin September 8, 2010

By Cathy Jackson Our guest today was Sarita Holzmann, co-founder and president of Sonlight Curriculum. She and her husband John are considered leaders in the field of literature-based homeschooling. They established Sonlight Curriculum twenty years ago. Their goal was to provide families across the globe with the rich resources they need to raise life-long learners [...]

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Video Gaming/Pros and Cons

by Dr. Rose Gamblin July 6, 2010

What is video gaming, and how did it start? It all started in 1949, when a young engineer named Ralph Baer was given an assignment to build a television set. He wasn’t supposed to build just any television set, but one that would be the absolute best of all televisions. This was not a problem [...]

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What’s so Special about the Flag?

by Dr. Rose Gamblin June 10, 2010

By Dr. Rose Gamblin Norma Swanson joined Homeschool Companion in a rousing discussion about the U. S. Flag. Norma is the founder and president of Window to the World, Inc. She is a long time teacher and educator and has served as a confidential assistant to the Deputy Undersecretary of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs at [...]

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Restoring Culture through the Arts

by Dr. Rose Gamblin June 3, 2010

By Cathy Jackson Today I had so much fun being a guest co-host on the show, Restoring Culture through the Arts. What, exactly, does that mean? Today we were honored to have Vivian Doublestein as a guest on our show. She is the founder and Executive director of The Master’s Academy of Fine Arts, based [...]

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Why Should We Teach Our Children about the Constitution?

by Dr. Rose Gamblin September 23, 2009

Information is one of the most important tools for safeguarding our freedoms. If we don’t teach (inform) our children about them they won’t be prepared to defend them. Here is a simplified version of the Bill of Rights—our 10 basic freedoms.  Congress can’t make any law about your religion, or stop you from practicing your [...]

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