[The River Houses]

The River Houses

A National Network of Local Homeschool Societies

🇺🇸 🏇 WONDERFUL WORDS: “The fate of a nation was riding that night”

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“A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, / And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark / Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: / That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, / The fate of a nation was riding that night.” (An extra equestrian homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Longfellow, for the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775.)

🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – April 2024

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Our April roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month, on homeschooling in Vietnam; homeschooling in the United Arab Emirates; and homeschool support in Canada.

🗓 🦁 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Leo Term

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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today, April 15th, is the cross-quarter day of Leo Term, our spring term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

🖖 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy First Contact Day!

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“Sure on this shining night / I weep for wonder wand’ring far alone / Of shadows on the stars.” (On this day in the year 2063, in a remote area near Bozeman, Montana, a Vulcan survey ship will make first contact with the human race. Perhaps some of today’s homeschoolers will be there to see it.)