Cookderosa's new book --- Homeschooling For College Credit

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Hi Jennifer,
Just finished reading your book; what a great resource for homeschool families. Even though I am familiar with the process, having earned an AS from Charter Oak over 20 years ago and more recently finished a BA there, I learned many new tricks. Thank you! My daughter is currently a sophomore in high school and we are hoping she can graduate with an AS in business before sending her off to culinary school. I am curious on how I can generalize some of your principles in the book to a co-op group or if that is even possible? I have talked to several moms in my group suggesting we offer a track for advanced juniors and seniors where they can work as a group and study for a test each month with the hopes of accumulating 30 or so general education exams that can transfer. Everyone says it sounds like a good idea but I am not so sure how it would work out practically. I am finishing teaching a Psychology course and will be giving the class a practice CLEP exam next week. I have learned that just because the parents think it is a good idea, many of the kids are not onboard. Maybe it is more effective to have each teacher tack on a few weeks of CLEP prep to go along with the course they are teaching instead of trying to immerse a student in one subject at a time before moving on to the next? While I love that style of learning I don’t know how effective it is for teenagers. Any thoughts?
So, how far along in the process are your kids?
I hope Rainbow Resource will carry your book, and then you can make the rounds at all the home-school conventions!
Thanks again for putting this resource together,
Gen
P.S. the advantage of reading before you go to bed is that I did not notice any errors except the weird formatting that goes along with many of the kindle books.

Hey, you are aware that Florida offers college courses FREE to homeschool students right? In addition to the concepts offers in Jen's book there is a whole lot of helpful stuff out there, particularly for Florida residents. Using the ideas in this book, coupled with the free courses, my daughter knocked out her AA before graduating HS. Shoot me a PM if you need info (don't want to high jack a great thread).