Compiled by: Kathi Kearney, Gifted Education Consultant
Founder, The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children
E-mail: kkearney@midcoast.com

Internet Resources for Homeschooling Gifted Students

Legal Resources
• Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)

Gifted Education Resources
Listservs, Message Boards & E-mail Conference Archives
• TAGMAX listserv for homeschooling and home enrichment of gifted children.
• The Forum: Oz-Gifted Archives of a special Australian two-week e-mail conference on homeschooling gifted children. To access the archives, click on “Date.” Scan down the list (about halfway) until you come to the message titled, “OGT – Homeschooling gifted children: Opening Message.” Click on this opening message, and from there you will be able to access all the threads in the archive for this conference, returning from time to time to the main archive page to access a new thread.
• Precocious & Prodigious Message Board for families with profoundly gifted children. This board has many homeschoolers and discusses many issues important to those homeschooling gifted children.

Websites & Electronic Magazines
• Families Learning About Giftedness (FLAG) a homeschooling/gifted website and free e-zine on homeschooling gifted children.
• Lifeline to the Net’s Gifted Resources Index Gifted Education Organizations Supportive of Homeschooling as an Educational Option for Gifted Children
• Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children
• Gifted Development Center

Bibliographies on Homeschooling Gifted Children
• Annotated Bibliography on Gifted Children & Homeschooling Full-length Articles
• Staying Home From School a comprehensive feature article about homeschooling published by Education Week. This article includes a spotlight on a family homeschooling highly gifted children.
• Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents This short article is part of the CEC/ERIC Digests. This is a very basic guide for beginners.
• Homeschooling Resources for Gifted Students A “mini-bib” published by CEC/ERIC, this publication contains links to many gifted education and academic competition sites which may be useful to homeschooling families.
• Desperately Seeking Research. . . on Homeschooling the Gifted
• ERIC Digests on Gifted Education Articles about many current issues in gifted education. Although primarily not about homeschooling, these digests provide up-to-date, important information about educating gifted children in a variety of settings, and about social/emotional development, recreation, and family life.

Curriculum, Schools, & Online Courses Particularly Appropriate for Gifted Homeschoolers
• Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), at Stanford University. Online distance learning courses, kindergarten through college level, for gifted students.
• Center for Distance Education (CDE), at Johns Hopkins University. Partner to Stanford.
• Pennsylvania Homeschoolers Advanced Placement Courses Online
• Virtual School for the Gifted, an Australian online enrichment program for gifted children.
• College of William and Mary Center for Gifted Education Curriculum, designed for gifted students in conventional schools but adaptable to homeschool settings
• Westbridge Academy, a satellite school for gifted homeschooled students
• Keizer Honors Academy for Gifted Students, an online version of the Popper-Keizer Honors Schools programs for the gifted. Offers an early reading program, Advanced Placement courses, and an early high school diploma program.
• Castle Heights Press, science and engineering curriculum for gifted homeschooled students
• KONOS curriculum, a comprehensive unit study curriculum.
• Five in a Row, unit study literature-based curriculum for young children Research Studies
• Homeschooling Works — Pass It On! (popular version) and Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998 (scholarly version), Two versions, a “popular” and a “scholarly” report of the same study. This is the largest independent research study of homeschoolers completed to date, involving 20, 760 homeschooled children, primarily from religious families. Interestingly, however, 24% of the students were enrolled in a grade one or more years higher than their chronological age would predict.

General Homeschooling Sites of Particular Interest to Those Homeschooling Gifted Children
• School is Dead, Learn in Freedom A very comprehensive site of homeschooling links — one of the best on the Internet.
• And What About College? A site regarding homeschoolers and college entrance.
• National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)
• Holt Associates/Growing Without Schooling : A basic website about the unschooling philosophy.
• Home School Headlines A quarterly e-zine focusing on thoughtful discussion of homeschooling topics. Christian perspective. The premiere issue includes a comprehensive discussion of testing, assessment, and homeschooled students.
• Eclectic Homeschool Online A comprehensive website featuring full-length articles from Eclectic Homeschool Magazine, many curriculum links, and a new college entrance section (includes NCAA eligibility requirements for homeschooled athletes). Christian perspective.