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National School Choice Week (NSCW) is January 21-28, 2018. According to NSCW’s site,͞   NSCW is now the world’s largest annual celebration of opportunity in education. During this week, there are events to raise awareness and celebrate the many options available to...

Odysseyware is an online curriculum for students in grades 3-12 used in schools and by homeschool families. Odysseyware is student-paced, mastery-based, teacher-interactive online. Let’s break this down and see exactly what that means. Student-paced Students work at...

INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL LEARNING ACADEMY STUDENT STARS IN FOX NETWORK's 12/17 LIVE BROADCAST OF ”A CHRISTMAS STORY"   HENDERSON, NEVADA, December 12, 2017 – Christmas came early this year for eleven-year-old Andy Walken, a distance learning student at the International...

November is the season for remembering all we have for which to be thankful. Over the years, many families have shared their gratitude for homeschooling. The following was sent to Global Student Network in November 2015. I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to...

By now everyone interested in homeschooling has heard the uproar about the Common Core State Standards and has embraced either a pro or con opinion about state implementation of the program in public schools across the U.S.  The important issue may not be whether...

Testing is not an unusual construct in the K-12 education world, whether tests are administered in public schools or in homeschools.  Most school-aged children in the U.S. have taken a national or state-based standardized test at one time or another.  Kids get...

If you're a homeschool parent and are considering forming a homeschool cooperative, you will quickly discover that there are dozens of ways you can structure your co-op to best serve its members.  Generally speaking, homeschool co-ops are made up of families who share...

GSN is offering a $25 Amazon Gift Card for each student enrolled by Aug. 15, 2017. Global Student Network (GSN) provides nine online curriculum options for homeschool families.  Our online learning platforms are – Flexible You can determine when and where your student...

Our websites will be undergoing maintenance this weekend, from approximately 8PM PDT on Saturday, 5/20 thru 6AM PDT on Sunday, 5/21 and will not be available. Our curriculum, however, will remain online, should you need to access curriculum during this maintenance...

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS Summary  The idea of Common Core State Standards goes back to 2008 when Janet Napolitano, former Arizona Governor and 2006-07 chair of the National Governors Association, wrote a report focused on improving math and science education in...

Research shows that students who attend summer learning programs often demonstrate learning gains over students who do not attend summer school.  Unfortunately, summer public school programs can be labor and cost intensive and many school districts have been forced to...

Thousands of parents have watched their young toddler or elementary school child behave in ways that "seem so intelligent" and, based on these casual observations, have concluded that their child is most certainly "gifted."  Unfortunately, many of these parents do not...

Global Student Network (GSN), a provider of state-of-the-art online educational tools since 2004, provides a wide variety of personalized learning tools that can be utilized as an alternative to "one-size-fits-all" instructional approaches often used in public...

Global Student Network is pleased to offer Edmentum™ Study Island. Designed to help students in grades K-12 master content and improve skills in language arts and math, Study Island now includes science and social studies. This high-impact learning platform provides...