I was going to say Olin (but no longer, for now anyway). It looks like their admissions costs also changed w/ economy: http://www.olin.edu/admission/costs.asp

Thank you and Melissa for adding and offer for more information. I will be in touch. We are broadening our search. J

[quote My dd has a couple of the work colleges on her list (her father and I both attended one :001_smile:) but I don't know much about Blackburn. Georgia What is dd's list? Which work college did you and dh attend? At first really liked the looks of Warren Wilson too but subculture? may not work out for ds. From some student reviews on-line, there seems to be quite a significant use of marijuana, partying etc. along with strong academics. Blackburn doesn't seem to rate really high but the website looks appealing, so still wondering..

Thank you Georgia for responding to Debbie's question. Here is another link to "Alternative Universities" that kind of relates to work colleges in terms of experiential learning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_university

Anyone heard of Blackburn College, IL?We are starting college search with small Liberal Arts, work based colleges along the lines of Deep Springs College,CA

Thanks for all the leads Lori. Bookmarking all for next year :) I found "The World Today" on FetchBook: http://www.fetchbook.info/compare.do?search=9781567656480

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We've made a switch for the core History/Lit studies after winter Christmas break to Trisms History Makers. http://www.trisms.com/ Multiple reasons why but one main one is because younger brother in 6th returned to homeschooling after pulling him out of local charter school. ds in 8th doing: Math combo of Dolciani Geometry, MUS Basic Algebra and Geometry (older MUS ed.) and recent ed. MUS Geometry DVD. Science Apologia (enrolled in local Christian school) English/LA (enrolled in local Christian school) History/Lit TRISMS "History Makers" (some IEW, soon..), Genevieve Foster's "Abraham Lincoln's World" Spelling w/ Sequential Spelling non structured Spanish w/ Rosetta Stone, Joy Hakim's US History series, additional readers from Sonlight, TOG etc. We started out the school year concentrating on American History up till Civil War (Reconstruction-Present for next). We were using TOG and Sonlight cores combo of SL4 and SL 100. Switch mainly made because I found I was doing more the work (bulk of RA) and wanted the boys to be more independent learners. Trisms has worked out very well for us so far and we hope to finish out the 4 years HighSchool planned. I was intrigued by the research based learning that can be as student or teacher motivated as one liked. In Math we started out the year w/ Harold Jacobs Algebra and Singapore's Discovering Mathematics 2A. The theory was to finish Algebra and 1/2 of Geometry this year. Then move on to 1/2 Geom. and Algebra 2 next. Again switched because ds fell in love w/ Geometry and his Dolciani 1972 text (that so far has an elusive solutions guide). One thing led to another matching curriculums for ds2 (using MUS entirely), and viola our own home made (God's will) patchwork of Math curriculums. Sincerely, Jayne Classical logic lover but unschooler at heart.

We are doing this right now, so far so good. Maybe someone with more experience may be able to add... Ds who has always been very intuitive in math started in S'pore Math through 5th grade, then went into trad. schools from private-charter is now back homeschooled doing Dolciani Geometry/MUS single year Geometry DVDs/ and older edition MUS Basic Algebra & Geometry. I have read many great things about some wonderful Math curr. on the WTM forum and some re: MUS being not challenging enough in higher levels. But I have also seen on-line many success stories of families using MUS all the way. Please pm me if you like and we can talk details. For us it was a matter of cost, efficiency, God's will and combining curr. w/ brother following suit in 2 years that has to use MUS (only curr. that works since ds2 is largely a kinesthetic learner). Hope you get some good follow-up to your question.

Thanks for your link. Here's the direct url for anyone interested: http://donnayoung.org/forms/planners/hs-transcript.htm

Thanks a bunch. Bookmarking this one for me. We will all start our "formal" Mandarin next school year.

How does Harold Jacob's Geometry comp to Dolciani's? We are using the 1969 Dolciani but I'm having a hard time locating the Solutions key to go with it. Not much to abandon if switch to Jacob's Geo since the text I found was dirt cheap and only one plus week into it so far. DS was/is doing Jacob's Algebra along with S'pore Discovering Mathematics 2A but was finding Jacob's Algebra as a waste of time. He would mindfully do the work assigned but I could see his heart was not into it. Loves Dolciani. Thanks.

What a nice thread. Thanks Holly. Ds 9th grade plans are, Hist/Lit/Geo: TRISMS "Discovering the Ancient World" We already have Sonlight's Core 200, so will tweak it w/ time period in, to cover some Church History. Math: continue Dolciani Geometry possibly attempt Algebra 2. Science: Apologia through class enrollment in private Christian school (looking into Kinetic Books) LA/English: enrolled as homeschooler in same school as well Foreign Language: Chinese or Spanish (depending on how Chinese goes) etc: plenty of physical activity and "unschooling" moments with brothers (ack! how do you translate that into transfer credits)

Hi Denise, I think I'm the one guilty of hijacking the thread since you started it to begin with. All the best, J.

Thank you Jane and Beth. Beth your description for the solutions guide was very helpful. It sounds like it will be too difficult for ds at this time (he is in 8th) and a waste of money. If you ever want to sell your Dolciani books, you have a willing buyer ;)

Thanks Beth. Much obliged. Just out of curiosity, you mentioned higher level geometry.. Is this high school level still or maybe college? I think some things can be gleaned just studying a solutions manual ... (sorry mind going off in a tangent and thinking of all those 3rd world inventors {essentially self home-schoolers} I hear about on TED) If the level is not too much higher may possibly purchase just because I am having a real hard time locating a solutions key for ours.

Hi, Just wondering if Wooten's "Modern Analytic Geometry" Solution Key will work for my 63 cent book. Ds started after Christmas break and is working too fast for me to keep up without a Solutions key. I found the Dolciani et al Solution's Key in Alibris and was just notified of cancel refund because no longer available. Here's the link to Wooten's (w/pic). http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395198097/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2966FOX1EWRNK&v=glance What do you all think?

Sorry, I'm not flagged with response to posts. I think both are. My link's blogger has links to TOG as well. Cheers, J.

Trinity Homeschool Jul. 26, 2009 American History with African American Focus Lesson Plan with Reading Schedule http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/TrinityHomeschool3/711523/

Hi Gloria, Not sure if you were still considering SL.. TOG comps it in many ways but is more in depth. Siloam has a wonderful post somewhere in the WTM forum comparing the two. I am combining core 3,4 (oops,lol.), core 100 and Tapestry of Grace's Year 2-Year 3 units because I do not want to teach 2 separate curriculum to my 2 guys who are 13 and 11. We are covering American History up till Civil War this year then Reconstruction to Modern American History next school year. Used SL in elementary years and the boys have loved the SL readers but I find we may be leaning towards TOG as they get older simply because it has "more meat" and incorporates more hands on activities for ds 2. We are using the TOG "Classic" because it is more economical for present. May switch and invest TOG DE in Year 2 Unit 2 though. Please PM me if you have any questions. I have both the core 3 and 100. What I have liked about Sonlight is mainly the chronology and breakdown of the readers for Lit and History, and discussion question pertaining to each book. That's about it. TOG I feel offers a lot more value for the cost. Sonlight is great for a beginning Homeschooler because it is not overwhelming and breaks it down by day, which was helpful. Oh we do not use SL's LA program. Never grew on us even in lower grades. My guys supplement by taking English and Science in a private school. Hope this helps. Jayne

Thanks Karin for confirming this. We are rather fond of older books too :) It seems the search may be more challenging to get a good deal that is for TM Geometry w/ answers. I will keep ya posted. Cheers.

ah, found one in another thread. Thanks Beth for link. Modern Algebra ASIN: B0007DU4SI http://www.amazon.com/Modern-algebra-Structure-method-Teachers/dp/B0007DU4SI/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226496220&sr=8-40 I usually use http://www.fetchbook.info to do price search covering sellers from Amazon to AbeBooks etc. Fetchbook however can not do look ups by ASIN, only ISBN. Most of the older Dolciani's can only be tracked by ASIN #.

Yay! Our 63 cent book finally arrived, and had a minute to thumb through. Pleasantly glad to find it a "brand-new" condition, but it is also one of the Student ed. w/ NO answers in back. Thanks Karin and every poster's comments for all your helpful responses in the Dolciani threads. Now off to track down a reasonable solutions manual or Teacher's ed.... Does anyone have the ASIN numbers for the coveted Teachers Ed. 1964 plus Dolciani's? I'm not sure if I got the right book since our's is the 1970,1969 edition. Still be put to good use though :D, no complaints for value, looks like a decent text.