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2012 Homeschool Blog Awards Nominations are OPEN

The annual Homeschool Blog Awards are open for nominations.

There are 20 categories including:

Best Photos

Most Encouraging

Funniest

Best Variety

Most Thrifty

Best Homeschool Nature

And if you happen to think that this blog might be worth a nomination in any of the categories, I won't complain! ;-)

Nominations will end on October 22.

Ready for Shell Rewards Card?

We all have our rewards cards for grocery, pharmacy, craft stores and more. Now you can have a Fuel Rewards Card for Shell gas!
It is only available in certain states. Here's the list of available states:

Louisiana                  Florida

Illinois                   Missouri

Maine                       Ohio

Rhode Island          Washington DC

Nebraska                     Utah

Arkansas              Indiana

Kansas

Grades...do you make the grade, use the grade, give the grade?

Well, I wrote about grading over at Home Educating Family Blog today.

Here's a taste:
The idea of grading as we currently think of it came from the development of the public education system. The standardized grading system we are most familiar with arrived on the scene at the same time as compulsory education and the industrial revolution. The great migration to the cities brought about changes including a factory model of education. It was a way educating a great number of individuals at the same time. You know, like mass production. It was an easy way to communicate how successful the student had been in learning what was needed to become a quality factory worker.
Check out the rest HERE.