Home Education Resources

If you are interested in learning more about home education, numerous books can be of assistance. Here are a few recommendations. Explore additional resources by searching for 'home education' or 'home school' at your local public library.

Exploring Homeschooling

• Christian home educators‘ curriculum manual elementary grades by Cathy Duffy

• Christian home educators‘ curriculum manual junior/senior high by Cathy Duffy

• The ultimate guide to homeschooling by Debra Bell

• The big book of home learning; Getting started Volume 1 by Mary Pride

• Mary Pride’s complete guide to getting started in homeschooling by Mary Pride

• The big book of home learning; Junior high to college Volume 3 by Mary Pride

• The guidance manual for the Christian home school a parent’s guide for preparing home school students for college or career by David Callihan, Laurie Callihan

• Homeschooling high school planning ahead for college admission by Jeanne Gowen Dennis

• You can teach your child successfully Grades 4 to 8 by Ruth Beechick

• Homeschooling, the middle years your complete guide to successfully homeschooling the 8- to 12-year-old child by Shari Henry

• Homeschooling the teen years : your complete guide to successfully homeschooling the 13- to 18-year old by Cafi Cohen

• The well-trained mind a guide to classical education at home by S.Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise

• A Charlotte Mason education a home schooling how-to manual by Catherine Levison

• For the children’s sake foundations of education for home and school by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

• The original home schooling series by Charlotte M. Mason  

• Home educating with confidence how ordinary parents can produce extraordinary children by Rick Boyer, Marilyn Boyer

Legal Issues

• Home education answers for Ohio parents by Diana Marie Fessler 

• The right choice the incredible failure of public education and the rising hope of home schooling : an academic, historical, practical, and legal perspective by Christopher J. Klicka, Gregg Harris

Special Needs

• Teaching at home:  A new approach to tutoring children with autism and Asperger syndrome by Olga Holland

• Gifted children at home a practical guide for homeschooling families: characteristics, testing, curriculum, resources– and much more by Janice Baker, Kathleen Julicher, Maggie S. Hogan

Help for Parents

• Help for the harried homeschooler a practical guide to balancing your child’s education with the rest of your life by Christine M. Field  

• Home schooling at the speed of life balancing home, school, and family in the real world by Marilyn Rockett 

• The Organized homeschooler by Vicki Caruana 

• A literary education by Catherine Levison (A list of recommended books with annotations and reading levels for homeschoolers to use in their teaching.