Arkansas Homeschooling
Whether you are new to homeschooling, or have been homeschooling for years, it helps to have a place to get good information, support, ideas, and resources to help you and your entire family succeed. You've found this place. To get started learning more about homeschooling in Arkansas, spend some time looking at these great starting points:
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Arkansas Home School Laws
The Home School Legal Defense Association provides a brief summary of the homeschooling laws in Arkansas. Includes a link to a legal analysis of laws relating to homeschooling in Arkansas.
ARkansas HOMe Educators (ARHOME)
ARkansas HOMe Educators (ARHOME) is for Arkansas homeschoolers to share information about homeschooling and about legislation in Arkansas that affects homeschooling.
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. Today the trail encompasses about 2,200 miles of land and water routes, and traverses portions of nine states.
Arkansas Post National Memorial
In 1686, Henri de Tonti established a trading post known as "Poste de Arkansea" at the Quapaw village of Osotouy. It was the first semi-permanent French settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Over the years, the Post relocated as necessary due to flooding from the Arkansas River, but its position always served of strategic importance for the French, Spanish, American, and Confederate military. Arkansas Post became part of the United States following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. By ...
Arkansas Department of Education Home School Information
This section of the Arkansas DOE's website has information regarding the homeschooling law in Arkansas. Includes notice of intent forms, home school waiver form, fact sheets, and more.
Blessed Sacrament Homeschool Group (BSHG)
Blessed Sacrament Homeschool Group is a Catholic homeschool support group that has members in the Memphis Metro area, including North Mississippi, Eastern Arkansas, and other parts of West Tennessee. The Blessed Sacrament Homeschool Group is dedicated to encourage and enhance children with a nurturing, helpful, supportive, and loving family environment, based on the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pea Ridge National Military Park
Pea Ridge National Military Park is a 4,300 acre Civil War Battlefield that preserves the site of the March 1862 battle that saved Missouri for the Union. The park also includes a two and one half mile segment of the Trail of Tears. The Elkhorn Tavern, site of bitter fighting on both days, is a NPS reconstruction on the site of the original. The park is one of the most well preserved battlefields in the United States.
Texas Unschooling
Texas Unschooling is the source for information on all things unschooling in Texas. At Texas Unschoolers, their mission is to educate and support those families who are exploring an alternative approach to life and learning. Many kids do very well outside the traditional public school model when they are allowed the time and resources to discover where their passions lie.
Mardel Christian & Educational Supply
12201 West Markham, Ste. 1
Little Rock, AR 72211
Phone: 501-312-0316
4617 JFK Boulevard
North Little Rock, AR 72116
Phone: 501-758-8314
Mardel stores average 30,000 square feet of retail space and stock over 40,000 items. These items include: Bibles, books, music, gifts, children's, office supplies, and educational materials. Mardel stocks a large selection of homeschooling materials, workbooks, and supplies.
Arkansas Arts Center
The Arkansas Arts Center is a museum of art and an active center for the visual and performing arts. As the state's largest cultural institution, the Arkansas Arts Center includes the Arkansas Museum of Art; the Decorative Arts Museum; the Museum School; the Children's Theatre; and State Services. Located in Little Rock.
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,180-mile footpath along the ridgecrests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in northern Georgia. It traverses the scenic, wooded, pastoral, wild, and culturally resonant lands of the Appalachian Mountains. Conceived in 1921, it was built by private citizens and completed in 1937. The trail traverses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl...
Homeschooling in Northwest Arkansas (NWAHomeschool)
This is an email group primarily for homeschoolers in Northwest Arkansas, but open to everyone for sharing of teaching ideas, tips, problems, accomplishments.
Potlatch Corporation
Founded in 1903 at Potlatch, Idaho, Potlatch Corporation is a diversified forest products company with timberlands in Arkansas, Idaho and Minnesota totaling more than 1.5 million acres. Products include lumber and panels (plywood and particleboard), bleached pulp, bleached paperboard and consumer tissue products. Potlatch in Arkansas includes forestland and manufacturing plants in Cypress Bend, Warren, and Prescott.
K12 Arkansas
This group is for folks currently using, or thinking about using, Dr. William Bennett's K12 curriculum, either as a homeschooler or a member of a Virtual Charter School in Arkansas.
Hot Springs Home Schoolers
This group is for home schooling parents in the Hot Springs, AR, and surrounding areas.
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