Calvert Education Counselors can be one of the best and most amazing things about a Calvert experience. Yet often I find when I talk to families that they are not accessing this tremendous resource we provide. So, with their hearty agreement, the education counselors are helping us get to know them better. In our previous […]

While many of us would enjoy reading books with the children and working on fun science experiments for the majority of the day, if you’re like most homeschooling families, the household tasks still need to be done.  The dishes need to be washed, the laundry needs to be folded, and there’s always a never-ending mountain […]

Parents have asked me over and over again what I think of the new Math in Focus, and how it compares to Calvert math. Having some 16 years of experience with Calvert Math – and its previous iterations – I think I can say honestly that it is an excellent and thorough program. I was […]

Calvert Education Counselors can be one of the best and most amazing things about a Calvert experience. Yet often I find when I talk to families that they are not accessing this tremendous resource we provide. So, with their hearty agreement, the education counselors are helping us get to know them better. In our first […]

In past weeks, we told you about two notable Calvert Homeschool alumni, Barack Obama and William F. Buckley, Jr.  This week, we’d like to tell you about yet another Calvert Homeschool student, Pearl S. Buck. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia in 1892, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was the daughter of missionaries.  Soon after Pearl’s birth, her […]

Calvert’s Education Counselors can be one of the best and most amazing things about a Calvert experience. Yet often I find when I talk to families that they are not accessing this tremendous resource we provide. So, with their hearty agreement, the education counselors are helping us get to know them better. Here is the […]

In a previous blog post, we told you about a well-known Calvert alumni, Barack Obama.  The next person in our series on notable Calvert Homeschool students is William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley, a well-known American conservative author and commentator, was born in New York city in 1925.  He was the sixth of ten children.  As […]

In a recent post on the Calvert Facebook Page, we asked Calvert Parents to describe their child using only ONE WORD. While this started off as a fun social media game, we were amazed at the wonderful responses we received as our families posted one word to describe each of their children.  We have some […]

Calvert Education Services — once known as the the Calvert School’s “Home Instruction Division” — is proud to claim many accomplished, well-educated alumni such as William F. Buckley and Pearl S. Buck, but none more prominent than President Barack Obama! Recently a Calvert School alumnus pointed out that Wikipedia suggested that President Obama was homeschooled […]

This weekend, Tom Friedman of the New York Times wrote about parent involvement in American education. Friedman lauded Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent speech to the National Assessment Governing Board Education Summit for Parent Leaders. Although Secretary Duncan’s focus was on traditional public schools, we think most successful Calvert homeschoolers — as well as our […]