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Preparing the Homeschooler For College – How Distance Learning Private Schools Can Help
As a result of the competitive nature of the college admission process, parents are constantly looking for anything that will give them and their children an edge over other applicants. With many schools cutting back on the number of students they admit, and with the requirements for admission becoming more and more rigorous each year, many parents are looking to do everything they can to help their children get into the college or university of their choice. For homeschooling parents, the competitive edge is often gained through their child’s enrollment in a distance learning private school.
Most parents find that traditional public or private schools cannot effectively prepare their children for the rigors and requirements associated with attending a top college or university. Often, these schools are overcrowded, under funded, and staffed by unqualified teachers, ensuring that only a few of the self-sufficient students who attend them will actually receive the education they deserve or have paid for. For most parents, this is simply not an acceptable situation.
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Rising to the Linguistic Challenge
This is a story about a young man growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s. He was a bit strange for a Californian of that epoch. He of course loved surfing, but he loved mathematics and physics even more. His dream from a very young age was to go to university and get a science degree. And that’s what he did.
In 1960 he enrolled at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). At that time (I imagine it is still the case), in addition to their choosing a major, university students were required to take so-called “cross curriculum” classes in other disciplines. In particular, at UCLA everyone was required to study a language.
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Linguistic Safaris – 15 Minute Language Lessons For the Very Lazy
Opportunities exist everywhere to learn language. This is especially true when you are learning a second language within the country where it is spoken. However, when we travel or when we live day to day in a foreign culture we have to deal with a lot of difficulties, not just linguistic ones, and often we don’t find the time to make a conscious study of language. Here’s an idea of 15 minutes of language consciousness that can help you climb out of that rut.
Living in Paris, I need to speak French. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of patience for language study at this time, and sometimes I find myself going for weeks without making a concerted effort to improve my French skills. This is not good, because continued use of a foreign language for survival skills without constantly monitoring grammar rules can lead to fossilization, a pernicious and intractable set of interlanguage grammar rules.
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