Online Education Center

For the benefit of homeschoolers unable to attend classroom sessions, the following distance education courses are now being offered by the EIE Academy If the class you are interested in does not appear here, please contact the instructor of the traditional class and ask if an online version may be possible.

Continuing: College Preparatory English Usage
Runs indefinitely. Enroll anytime. Eight weeks. $175.00.

Special
A limited number of students will be invited to take the College Preparatory English Usage Class under full scholarship. To be considered for this program, write us a short (200 word) essay explaining your reasons for wanting to study English usage. Preference will be given to homeschoolers and international students.

Taught by the author of SAT Practice: The New Verbal Section, College preparatory English Usage covers English vocabulary, usage, comprehension, grammar and composition. Please see our Writing Skills Playsheets section for a taste of class content and style. Course includes text, extensive resources, personal instructor attention, graded compositions, moderated discussion forums and chatrooms, quizzes, and a certificate upon successful completion.

For more information, email eclass@abacus-es.com or call (U.S.A.) (626) 797-7201

Homeschooling in Action

Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all.
- Socrates

Homeschooling in Action

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. . . . No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
- Socrates

Homeschooling in Action

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
- George Bernard Shaw