by Anna Eileen | After selecting a few colleges and writing the application essays, the next factor of the college application process to consider is institutional scholarships.
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When Seton Home Study School was established in 1980, its first objective was to provide a Catholic and academically excellent education to families who had neither proximity to nor means ...
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by Bob Wiesner | Summer’s here, students. Thank goodness, right! Now you can sit back, relax, and recover from a long hard year of schoolwork.
Read More »A Return From Exile: 10 Papal Statements on Education & The Rights of Parents
by John Clark | History may remember it as one of the strongest papal statements regarding the rights of parents in education...
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by Angela Jaramillo | When I was a teenager, our family lived in the mountains, a loud cacophony of bird calls woke me up like clockwork.
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by Fr Frank Papa | On May 13, in the year 1917, Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three peasant, home-schooled children
Read More »Graduation: Preparing for the Finish Line
by Chris Smith | Graduation is almost upon us, an exciting moment for students and parents alike.
Read More »Seton Special Services: Serving Students with Special Educational Needs
Seton’s initiative to offer special services has made home-schooling possible for children challenged with learning or medical problems. With over ten years experience adapting lesson plans, modifying assignments and creating ...
Read More »Trusting Myself to Teach: How Mary led Me to Homeschooling
by Heather Hryniewiecki Home education is becoming more attractive to people looking for an alternative to public and private school systems. With this being our second year of homeschooling, I ...
Read More »Seton Eatin’: 3 Recipes that Seton Families Love to Cook
A month ago, we asked Seton families to send in their favorite recipes, and how cooking factors into their homeschooling. Here are three great responses from our families to inspire ...
Read More »Homeschooling Doesn’t Come With a User’s Manual
by Catherine Shaw | On the very first day of my homeschooling freshman year, I remember pulling down the Religion 9 course from the gigantic looming stack of lesson plan binders.
Read More »8 Ways I Foster the Love of Science in My Children
by Angela Jaramillo | Not too long ago, I would have naively told you that I really thought all kids were reading and doing science independently for fun, until I recently went to a birthday party.
Read More »The 2015 Homeschool Conference Season
The 2015 homeschool conference season is off and running, thanks to the St. Louis Catholic Homeschool Conference, where speakers such as Patti Maguire Armstrong and Andrew Daub discussed topics from ...
Read More »Common Core Concerns
by Bob Wiesner | Many parents have recently expressed concerns about how the Common Core standards might affect the college entrance tests.
Read More »The Patron of Homeschooling
by Dr. Mary Kay Clark | She was adopted as the patron saint of homeschooling Catholic leaders back in the 1980s when we gathered together in the Chicago area to discuss Catholic homeschooling issues.
Read More »The Key to Mindful Reading
by Christine Smitha | Reading for an assignment is not like reading to unwind before bedtime, or scanning the comic section of the newspaper, even if you enjoy “school reading” as much as “pleasure reading.”
Read More »You Don’t Have to Know Everything to Homeschool!
by Malia Lewis | When I began to homeschool, my oldest was in fourth grade, so I figured there wouldn’t be many challenges right away.
Read More »Spring Reading Sale: 3 New Exciting Books for Boys & Girls
When I came into the office this morning, I found myself in love with a new stack of books on the table by my desk. How exciting! Reading has always ...
Read More »Socialization or Peer Pressure? How I Got One and Avoided the Other
by Laura Whitehead | Socialization: a word that many homeschooling families must deal with on a daily basis. It is thrown their way at dinner parties, family gatherings, church functions, and grocery stores.
Read More »The University of the Universe
by Bob Wiesner | “The world is charged with the grandeur of God…” So runs a line from Gerard Manley Hopkins, the great Jesuit Victorian poet. In the universe...
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