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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Growing Minds in White County, AR
Growing Minds is a non-religious homeschooling group in White County, Arkansas. They offer activities for homeschoolers in the Searcy/White County area, including bowling, skating, park days, field trips, mom's days outs, and more.
Arkansas Department of Education Rules and Regulations Governing Home Schools
The rules and regulations set forth by the Arkansas Department of Education pertaining to students who are educated at home.
Unschooling in the Midwest
This group is for unschoolers in the midwest to offer support to other life learning families and to organize activities.
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.
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.
Unschoolers of the Ozarks
This group is for radical unschoolers (and people who want to be) who live in Northwest Arkansas.
Fort Smith National Historic Site
At Fort Smith National Historic Site you can walk where soldiers drilled, pause along the Trail of Tears, and stand where justice was served. The park includes the remains of two frontier forts and the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Exhibits in the visitor center focus on Fort Smith’s military history from 1817 – 1871, western expansion, Judge Isaac C. Parker and the federal court’s impact on Indian Territory, U.S. Deputy Marshals and outlaws, Federal Indian policy, and Indi...
Arkansas Unschoolers
This group is for people who live in Arkansas or nearby who use the "unschooling" philosophy to homeschooling their children. This group will be used to provide support to each other, make connections with each other and attempt to help provide answers to those who have question about unschooling.
Terra Studios
Terra Studios is located in the Ozark Mountains near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Artisans produce glass and pottery homewares, gifts and fine art pieces. Visitors can stroll along the wooded paths through the mural garden, explore the pottery showroom and watch skilled glassworkers create the now famous Bluebird of Happiness®.
NW Arkansas Homeschool Social Events
Northwest Arkansas Homeschool Social Events is a group of families who choose to educate their children at home in Northwest Arkansas. This group plans play days, field trips, and other educational activities regularly.
Little Rock Zoo
The Little Rock Zoo features more than 725 animals representing 200+ species, many on the endangered list, including elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, tigers, jaguars, monkeys. Includes a Reptile House and Children's Farm.
CM Families of the South
The purpose of this loop is to encourage homeschooling families living in the Southern states who are trying to incorporate the philosophy of Charlotte Mason in their homes in their efforts to raise their children with an enthusiasm for learning.
Arkansas Department of Education
Website for the Arkansas Department of Education
Ambleside Moms In Arkansas (AMIA)
Ambleside Moms In Arkansas (AMIA) is a statewide Charlotte Mason homeschool support group for mothers in Arkansas using (at least some parts of) Ambleside Online and/or House of Education Online. Members are encouraged to plan regional meetings, nature walks and field trips. Special discussion topics include Arkansas history, native flora and fauna, Hot Springs National Park, Murfreesboro Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas agriculture and industry, and ways to add these study topics to our children's ...
Public Libraries Welcome Growing Homeschool Community
Public libraries around the country are finding new ways to serve the growing population of homeschoolers through physical spaces and creative programs catered to homeschooling families’ needs. This article takes a look at what libraries in Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee are doing to meet the diverse needs of homeschooling families. 
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