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Each Royal Academy program is individually designed around the strengths, interests, and unique qualities of each student and their family.
Parents choose Royal Academy because they desire an educational experience which encourages and stimulates their children to strive for the best in all areas of academic life. Students appreciate this solid yet flexible approach because it gives them the opportunity to explore personal interest areas in-depth.
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Feature Articles
The Opportunity Cost of Homeschooling
by Barbara Frank
If someone offered you a million dollars in exchange for not homeschooling your children, would you take them up on it?
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The Child Gets Knowledge By Means Of His Senses
by Charlotte Mason
Nature's Teaching.––Watch a child standing at gaze at some sight new to him––a plough at work, for instance––and you will see he is as naturally occupied as is a babe at the breast; he is, in fact, taking in the intellectual food which the working faculty of his brain at this period requires. In his early years the child is all eyes; he observes, or, more truly, he perceives, calling sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing to his aid, that he may learn all that is discoverable by him about every new thing that comes under his notice. Read More...
Rote Learning: Bypassing Thinking by Dr. Renée Fuller
Tony was amazing. He could multiply numbers in the thousands with the speed of a calculating machine. As a small child he had come across a high-number multiplication table which he proceeded to memorize. Was he the brilliant, sophisticated intellect that these feats would indicate?
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An Unschooler in College: Choosing a College
by Peter Kowalke (life long unschooler)
In 1996, I was a concerned 17 year-year-old lifelong unschooler. I was concerned because many of my friends were taking S.A.T.s and visiting college campuses. These were my home-educated friends. My schooled friends, who were numerous at the time, were not only visiting colleges and taking tests I never even knew existed, but also were wracking-up scholarships and completing AP classes for supposed college credit. I didn’t even know what it meant to be taking “AP.” Could I take AP for college credit, too? Read more...
IN THE NEWS
US grants German homeschoolers asylum. Will others follow?
by David Frances (Christian Science Monitor) March 3, 2010
A US judge granted German homeschoolers asylum in January after ruling they faced persecution in Germany, where the practice is punishable with fines or imprisonment. The US Home School Legal Defense Association says other German families are exploring political asylum in the US. Read Article...
Confessions of a home-schooled kid
By Irwin K. Fletcher (U-Weekly.com) 3/3/2010
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