Ron Paul Introduces for Homeschoolers the 'Ron Paul Curriculum' FREE grades 1-5
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I'll use this, for now, but there are better ones:
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I'm interested in some of it for myself, too.
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I agree it is a not the best webpage. I'm concerned if Mises is providing his initial basic support it won't have the pizzaz it should with the internet savvy Ron should be able to bring to bear. Mises has a lot of great brains, but it really could be packaged in a much more natural way.
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It just occurred to me Ben Swann said he was going somewhere in May, and is doing an interview of Ron this weekend from the Ohio Homeschool convention.
Ben Swann has a talent for much more web attractive sites. I suppose it is too much to hope for that he would be joining with Ron in this.
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Swann is also a speaker at the Republican Liberty Caucus national convention in Austin in May along with Rand, Lee, Cruz, et al. It sure looks like he's officially joining up with the "A Team" these days. I hope it's not just wishful thinking but I suspect Ben's new adventure is going to be some kind of business relationship with Team Liberty
.Almost every university I have ever seen accepts AP credits. Every major university in Indiana accepts them. Ones in Florida do too. I had 24 AP credits and I was only in high school for 3 years (1 year in germany) and I didn't even take the AP tests for micro and macro even though I took the classes (I was taking too many other AP tests at the same time and wanted to make sure I did well on the others).
I like that the curriculum requires a website. Something needs to be done quickly about adding computer science and real programming classes though. That is literacy for the 21st century in my sincere opinion and to be honest I think every kid needs to know how to program (it's not hard, especially with high-level languages nowadays). You could teach a 3rd grader a language like Python. Python is also an awesome, relatively fast and very broadly useful language. Personally I use C++ although I first learned Java in high school, then a little scripting hack-like macro program called AC Tool that had built-in image recognition logic statements (where I really learned how easy yet powerful it all could be), then Scheme and Python.
Although I see that "Students will be taught the basics of video production, website design, and Internet marketing." This is more layout and appearance oriented, powerpointesque kind of tech skills, and realistically very different and unrelated to the logical operations and work-replacement involved in many of the applications of programming. Javascript might be a good crossover for both though, given that it's used for client-side website development and even server side with projects called node.js, which is an asynchronous server-side implementation of javascript that has a great community and is pretty simple to use although the constant asynchronous callback methods are kind of new territory for a lot of programmers.
While the Computer Science AB & BC exams are a bit complicated (I personally was never a big fan of Java), looking at the curriculum in hindsight it teaches a lot of good fundamental concepts in a concise and time-tested two courses. All of the materials are widely available for you. I'm kind of thinking of looking for some old exam books just out of curiosity to evaluate them again.
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I wanted to donate to the cause (I don't have a student to enroll) but I don't see that option. Email sent inquiring how to do that. Will share here if I get a reply.
Suggested they set up a scholarship fund for people like me to donate too....to be used for people who can't afford the fees.
Suggested they set up a scholarship fund for people like me to donate too....to be used for people who can't afford the fees.
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I recommend speed-reading and mental maps.
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In case anyone else was wondering....
I sent an email to their contact link asking how I could donate $50 to the school. Gary North replied this:
Give $25 to two families to let them get started.
If she accepts, I'm going to pay for my friends homeschooled son to take Gary's High School Prep course. He's in the 6th grade now. Perfect timing!
I just want to be a part of this adventure
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I sent an email to their contact link asking how I could donate $50 to the school. Gary North replied this:
Give $25 to two families to let them get started.
If she accepts, I'm going to pay for my friends homeschooled son to take Gary's High School Prep course. He's in the 6th grade now. Perfect timing!
I just want to be a part of this adventure
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I agree. I think Ron needs web savvy people designing the web courses and they can take that website on as their first class project....
But I like the idea overall, it just needs to be R3VOLutionized.
Aye, I wonder if Woods et al were expecting grassroots criticism and network support or not. They should have known
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Since no one replied...reposting. Can others check this vid out for volume? It's barely a whisper to me with my settings maxxed out.
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