Showcase at Castlerock School, Woodlake

6:30 pm, May 6

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Drivers' Education Opportunities

We don't offer Drivers' Education at ERCLC, but it is widely available online. Here are a few links, along with the prices at the time we checked (no endorsement implied):

cheapdriversed.com ($59), driversed.com ($99), teendriverseducation.com ($70), cadrivingschool.com($109), trafficschool.com ($69), cal-driver-ed.com ($40 online course or $50 for home study workbook course), penschool.com ($75)

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High School Students and Parents:

Check out the "High School Notes" item on the menu. This is to keep you posted on assignments, schedules, and resources for your Wednesday Classes.

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Highlights from the Resource Page

Standards, Standards, Standards, ...

If you are concerned about meeting the standards for you children, print out the standards from the source: the California Department of Education web site. Links are provided under the "General" tab on the Resources page. For convenience, here they are also:

Content Standards for California Public Schools,
California Standards Keyed to the STAR Tests (pdf files stored on our own server),
and National Standards by Subject

Released sample test questions from the the Star Test and the CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam) are provided under the various topic headings.

Younger Children

There is a relatively new section on the resource page for resources for younger children.

Current Events Sources

At some point in your children's development they should start to become aware of what is going on in the world. T.V. news is of very limited value. It is typically more "infotainment" than information. The best journalistic sources are print media, from major newspapers that have the resources to maintain extensive networks of reporters and analysts. Click on the Current Events Sources link (on the Resources page) and read from newspapers from around the country and around the world. For your convenience, here they are also:

US Newspapers/News Services
Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Detroit Free Press, Globe and Mail,
LA Times, Miami Herald, Minneapolis StarTribune, NY Daily News, NY Newsday, NY Post,
NY Sun, NY Times, The Oregonian, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pioneer Press, SF Chronicle,
SF Examiner, St Petersburg Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer, USA Today,
Washington Post, Google News, Reuters

Foreign Newspapers/News Services
Agence France Presse, Aljazeera, Asia Times (HK), Guardian/Observer, Haaretz (Israel), The Independent,
London Times, Middle East Times, Moscow Times, Palestine Chronicle, Pravda (Eng.), Tehran Times, Telegraph U.K., Times of India, Toronto Star, BBC, Other Foreign

+ Links to just about every newspaper (+ radio, TV stations and more) in the world

These are only a few of the many links in our resource link collection. If you come across high quality resources you wold like us to consider for this page, send the link and a few of your own comments to the webmaster:
david at erclc.org.

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"Students and Families" Page

Some of our students and families have their own web sites and/or blogs (the numbers have dwindled recently). Blogs are a form of publication. Your children can learn to write for an actual audience by creating a blog (see Blogspot.com or other free blog hosts). There is a page of links to these called "Students and Families". If you have a web site you would like linked from the school's web site, please contact me at david at erclc.org.

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