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College Prep
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ACT Testing
ACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success. Grounded in 60 years of research, ACT is a trusted leader in college and career readiness solutions.
College Board (SAT)
Each year, the College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success — including the SAT and the Advanced Placement Program. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators and schools.
Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS)
Louisiana’s premier merit-based scholarship
Curriculum
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Abeka
For over forty years, schools and homeschooling families have trusted Abeka to provide materials using the traditional approach proven successful throughout education’s history. Professionally illustrated textbooks and teaching aids, hands-on activities, challenging exercises, purposeful repetition, and the reinforcement of concepts from subject to subject give you all the tools you need to make learning interesting and memorable.
Alpha-Omega Publications
Over the years, AOP has expanded from its original LIFEPAC print curriculum to include the popular Horizons line. In addition, AOP has played a key role in developing computer-based curriculum for homeschoolers, including Switched-On Schoolhouse and the groundbreaking Monarch online curriculum with learning options across grade levels.
Apologia
Apologia is a Christ-centered, award-winning homeschool curriculum provider. Our mission is to help homeschooling students and families learn, live, and defend the Christian faith through our print and digital curriculum and online classes.
Bob Jones (BJU)
BJU Press provides educational materials written from a biblical worldview that focus on academic rigor and encourage critical thinking—all supported by appropriate educational technology.
KONOS
KONOS teaches children academic subjects while kids are learning to practice biblical principles. In the Cooperation unit, for example, kids read in the Bible about parts of the body cooperating, they study the various systems of the body, and then practice ways of cooperating at home. In the Orderliness unit, kids learn about God's orderly universe while practicing their organizational skills in writing and in keeping their rooms clean. The whole family practices and applies what the Bible teaches, so children learn to "walk" what they "talk".
Saxon
To master mathematics, students need to build on prior learning—what new concepts they can learn depends on which concepts they already know. Saxon Math™ provides a learning structure proven to advance students steadily and assuredly to higher levels of understanding.
Sonlight
Sonlight is a complete, Christian literature-rich homeschool curriculum developed for students from preschool through high school. Our fully-planned curriculum uses a variety of educational resources including literary fiction and nonfiction, biographies, illustrations, and hands-on experiments to deliver an engaging and complete education that extends beyond textbooks and memorization.
Tapestry of Grace (Lampstand Press)
Today, Lampstand Press continues to expand, providing new products and services to an ever-broadening homeschool audience, including a vibrant online community. By God's grace, Lampstand Press will continue to provide encouragement, educational services, and inspiration to thousands of Christian homeschool families in America and internationally.
Homeschool Aids and Resources
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Home Science Tools
This is a great website for ordering science kits, experiment equipment, and additional resources. You can also sign up for a monthly newsletter to get monthly promotional offers and discounts, plus science projects and lessons, delivered to your inbox
Homeschooling Today
Twenty years ago Homeschooling Today magazine was founded by homeschooling parents with a vision to encourage and assist homeschooling families. Today, that vision continues as we focus on providing information and tools for those who homeschool, shared from a Christian perspective. The magazine doesn’t just offer encouragement but also ready-to-use lessons and activities for anyone who wants to expand the educational experience of their children, while keeping the approach to learning natural. Our goal is to help parents create an environment “Where The Love of Learning Takes Root”.
Louisiana Resource Center for Educators (LRCE)
Access over 100,000 resources in the LRCE collection.
NATHHAN
Encouraging homeschooling families with special needs children, in ways that glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and equipping parents to confidently homeschool their children with special needs or disabilities
Scientifics Direct
Through our catalog and website, Scientifics Direct, Inc. continues to provide the latest and most unique science related items available.
Helpful Organizations
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Classical Conversations
The purpose of Classical Conversations® is to lead the home-centered education movement by teaching parents and students the classical tools of learning so that they can discover God’s created order and beauty— and as a result— enable others to do the same.
Homeschool Louisiana
(formerly CHEF of Louisiana) Homeschool Louisiana is a 501c3 non-profit Christian ministry organization that seeks to serve all homeschool families and is comprised of local homeschool support groups from around the state and individual families members.
Legislative Voice
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HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association)
To keep homeschooling free, we work with legislators to craft homeschool-friendly laws, and then we help government officials stay in compliance with those laws. Our legislative alerts help mobilize the homeschool community, giving them an opportunity to make their voice heard on important homeschool issues. And for homeschooling parents, we provide easy-to-understand summaries of each state’s homeschool law so they can have peace of mind knowing that they are homeschooling legally.
Louisiana Family Forum
Louisiana Family Forum is committed to advancing life, liberty, and limited government in the great state of Louisiana!
ParentalRights.org
Children need to be raised and represented by parents who love them, not by disconnected government officials. When it comes to raising children, parents are better than the government.