If @Farrar is correct and the AOs aren't familiar with CLEP it might be worth including some information on you college applications explaining what they are, maybe some info about percentiles. For example a score of 50 represents "Level 1 Proficiency" (whatever that means) in Spanish. You might include a blurb like this one in your School Profile or elsewhere on you application: Most CLEP exams are designed to correspond to one-semester courses, although some tests correspond to full-year or two-year courses. Faculty at individual colleges review the exams to ensure that they cover the material that is currently taught in their corresponding college courses. The format of most questions is multiple choice. Other types of questions require students to fill in a numeric answer, to shade an answer option, or to order items correctly. Questions using these skills are called zone, shade, grid, scale, fraction, numeric entry, histogram, and order-match questions. Some of the exams also include required or optional essays. Language exams include a listening section. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for homeschoolers in coming years. Or instead of testing, homeschoolers may find themselves expending more energy locating people to write LoRs.

With Radio Shack closed it may be more challenging to source the parts, especially if you are as much of a newbie as I was. DM me if you have questions. ("Joe's Knows"--available from Amazon--sets of resistors and capacitors is handy to have on hand.)

Introduction to electronics using the book, Make: Electronics by Charles Platt.

Okay, this is adorable! I had to google: "Zhang Heng invented" to figure out that was a seismoscope, whatever that is. (I thought it was a samovar.) I for one would love to see your ds's powerpoint on how it works!

Has she already studied all 40 of the historical AMC10's? If so, she's probably ready to level up to AMC 12. When she finishes those, she can level up to the AIME. IMO, whether it's the SAT, MCAT, or AMC, the best way to prepare is to study old exams. AMC 10 might be comparable to State or National level MathCounts, but really, if she wants to improve her AMC score, she should study AMCs.

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I'll do it if she pays me up front...for the whole ten years.

My older kid attended OHS, and I was not aware of any education studies by Jo Baoler or anyone else on our students. I think we'd need to give IRB type permission for such a study of our students and it certainly would have been discussed on the parent email list. I'm not as familiar with CTY or SAVVY, and I'm not defending Baoler, who I see criticized on this thread repeatedly, but I don't really understand why. Can anyone explain Baoler's conclusions about education and why we criticize her, other than to vaguely say "they are not applicable" or it shows a "top down view"?

You've mentioned this before but now I've forgotten. What is your criticism of her?

This is terrific to hear, and hopefully it will spread to other areas. There is also a Math Teacher Circle movement that's gaining some momentum. More math and less pedagogy! We may have powerful textbook publishers to blame here. I know in California, textbooks must be replaced every 7 years. I thought Singapore Math was among those that were approved but I don't see it on this list.

Do you have a link to this?

Teacher training should be focused on making them subject experts. If they are teaching elementary science, they should be highly educated in that topic. They should be tested on that topic before they are allowed to teach it. If you explore the curriculum for elementary teachers who are trained by Stanford, you will see very little teaching of content. Instead you will see classes like "Equity and Schooling" and "Building Classroom Communities". There is a class called "Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematics," but if you dig down into the syllabus, you'll see the required textbook. The TOC of this book covers something called a "Math Conference" "Eliciting and Interpreting" and "Nudging." These do not sounds like mathematical topics. Returning to the "math" syllabus, we see just a little over 6 hours of instruction, every single one is about "Giving and Receiving Feedback." This is Stanford, people.

Consider which standardized tests your student plans to take, and use a calculator that is approved for those. No need to learn how to use 2 different calculators.

That's a good point. AIs can write copy now. I actually used an AI to fill out my website for me.

I always put the x on the LHS. I'm a little discombobulated to see it on the "wrong" side. I also like my chain inequalities to be increasing...unless we're comparing a variable with a number, then--you guessed it--the variable goes on the LHS regardless of the direction of the inequality. Can he solve most of the Review Problems and some or most of the Challenge Problems? If so, then I think he's good to continue with the textbook. Learning from a textbook, IMO, is an important skill to maintain. If he's able to do it now, I'd have him keep at it.

Why, why does this happen? Why is it happening so often now? Are newbies deliberately searching through the archives for the oldest messages? What's going on?

We schooled year round and often didn't adhere to Sept-May school year. If we finished algebra on Tuesday, we started geometry on Wednesday. So we pushed the course into the year where it made the most sense, generally where most of the learning happened. Or if it made more sense, in the year where the class was completed. Whatever looked most "normal" for our transcript.

There are youtubers who post the behind the wheel test route for many local communities. Our drive ed teacher also had my dd drive the route so she was familiar. The hardest part for me was being in the front seat while dds had their learner's permits. Knitting and keeping my eyes off the road helped. I tried to only advise when asked or when something dire was about to happen.

I have a suspicion @freesia is looking for a way to eat more chocolate and call it "parenting." Just kidding, I thought this was a great idea. I love the candle, it seems more solemn than just a timer.

Sure. To be clear, I'm not currently a member of the club. I just see this notification on my Clubs page and I can't seem to make it go away. Thanks!

For a long while now I see this on my main Clubs page: I think I saw someone else in this forum complain about this. I don't recall asking to join this club and when I click the red X I am directed to this page: Not a big deal for me, but FYI.

I just thought of something else. Besides being able to put "AP" on your transcript, being CB-approved means you have access to all their online resources, including their email list for teachers and their Question Bank and old exams. I personally did not find the email list to be very helpful, but I know others have. I have tutored for AP calculus, and I found the Question Bank to be a really great resource for putting together worksheets with practice problems. (You can filter for questions in one or more topics and create a custom worksheet and have your student complete it online or print it out as a PDF.) I'm not sure how applicable it would for AP Lit or if it even exists for that subject, but it might be worth taking a look this summer as you prepare your class.

MOEMS is terrific for elementary students. It's only 5 questions, takes a half hour, so most younger kids have the attention span required to take the exam and then spend 20 minutes discussing the problems. If you register officially, they will send you a nice package of certificates, pins, patches and a trophy. They range between apathetic to vaguely distasteful about homeschoolers, but are generally easy to deal with.

I don't have answers, but want to offer my sympathy. I used to routinely advise homeschooling parents to grab an easy 700+ on the SAT subject test to validate an A in a homeschool high school class. My dd eked out a low SAT Spanish score so she could satisfy the university foreign language requirement. I don't know what homeschooled kids will do now, not just for admissions for the myriad ways that SAT subject test scores are handy to have. I don't think you should incorporate more APs. Just continue as planned to do the APs in areas of interest. (math OR science OR English OR history OR foreign language, or maybe 2 areas, or not at all.) You'll need to think about other ways to demonstrate achievement, but not necessarily in all areas, but just the ones where your student has a strong interest. If your student is a history buff, think about ways he can demonstrate this: participating in reenactments, volunteering at a museum, participating in some sort of history contest. Maybe take APUSH and/or AP Euro, but not necessarily. Yes, take cc classes, if there are good ones in your area. You are luckier in that you have a year or two to see how this plays out for homeschoolers. Pay attention to hs2coll and WTM to see what is and isn't working for homeschoolers applying to college. Getting rid of these tests is going to have some unintended consequences.

Are you enrolling your student in public school? Public schools are obligated to enroll your student if you are in their district, transcript or no. Do your best to get the documents you can. Submit them, and tell them your situation. I'm sure it's not the first time a school has closed, and certainly very common during the pandemic. Transcripts are probably more for placement than admissions. Ask if there is a placement test.