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The Northeast Arkansas Home School Club put on a presentation for family and friends entitled "The Importance of African American Inventors" to wrap up Black History Month. The presentation was held at the Lake Pavilion. The home schooled students recited essays that they wrote about black inventors. Some students made their essay into a short play or dramatic performance.

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The 3rd Annual Home School Academic Fair will be Saturday, April 19 beginning at 9 am at the Crittenden Drive Church of Christ in Russellville.

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A California court has ruled that several children in one homeschool family must be enrolled in a public school or "legally qualified" private school, and must attend, sending ripples of shock into the nation's homeschooling advocates as the family reviews its options for appeal.

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Local homeschoolers say they have the best of all worlds: quality time spent with family, the ability to set their own schedules and the self-satisfaction of working at their own academic pace.

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A member family in Macon County, Illinois, started homeschooling in January of 2008. Later that month, the Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education (ROE) told the family that they had been informed that education was not occurring in the home. The ROE then told the family that they had to provide the district with (1) proof that instruction commensurate with the public school is being provided, (2) documentation of subjects taught, (3) an annual calendar and daily schedule, and (4) proof that the child’s level of academic achievement is comparable to that of the child’s peers.

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