The Solution: The HomeQuest Academy


The HomeQuest Academy; "The American Home Is Our Classroom." What is it?

Both divisions provide entertaining and engrossing curriculum materials that have been used in 11,000 public schools on CD-ROM, accessed by your home computer, as described below.

The Home-Schooling Division not only provides the curriculum to make home schooling possible for families who are worried about the time commitment or their lack of academic qualifications, but for an additional small monthly fee can provide accreditation of tests, and for high schoolers, grades, Carnegie credits towards graduation and even diplomas certified by a state State Board of Education, which are transferable and recognized in every state in the union.

The core of the HomeQuest Academy is its Consultants who are part of the Family Success Network. Their job is to help you set up your home-schooling and home-tutoring programs, and help you interface with the Academy to advise and help you.

Some of our clients are doing total home schooling. Others simply want a program where they can assign their children computer-curriculum homework, and with a few clicks of the mouse find out how much time they spent on the computer, and by checking the test scores, how well they have mastered the material.

Now letÍs look at the core of the HomeQuest Academy program„


The HomeQuest Home Learning Lab

The HomeQuest Academy vision is an authentic solution for virtually every person that cares about educating children. It provides a "Home-supported" education system of learning, using a 24-hour a-day home tutor„a computer tutor„at a cost of just pennies per day.

The HomeQuest Academy program can make a world of difference for students who are either attending public or private school, or are doing home-school. Teachers love the results because it supports their efforts and involves the parents. Home Schooling parents love the results because they do not have to spend nearly as many hours in a full-time home-school classroom. Most important, the students love it because the HomeQuest Academy system allows them to race ahead of the class at their own pace without embarrassment, or to play catch-up. It puts the child at ease and the parent in charge.

A growing number of parents are finding home-supported, computer-aided education with the HomeQuest Academy programs and the Home Learning Lab is the answer their prayers. To fully appreciate what computer-assisted, home-supported education is and how it works requires a little background information.

* The most promising and innovative development in public education in the last decade has been the school computerized learning lab. Progressive educators were quick to see the potential of this new technology. The system uses interactive software to teach reading, writing, math, science, history, geography and social science. Lessons are presented through the computer and the computer becomes the tutor. The system requires the student to get involved in the lesson or to interact with the computer.

* The learning lab is the closest thing to personalized instruction theschools can offer. The catch is that because of limited school budgets and a shortage of terminals, students can usually spend only 15 minutes to an hour a week on the computer„if the school has a lab. What could happen if students could spend several hours a day, rather than a week, with that resource? That is not possible in the schools because of budgets and the number of students. But, a personal learning lab in the home is a dramatic education accelerator.

The undisputed leader in the school computer-lab arena is Jostens Learning, with labs in over 11,000 public schools. "Multi-media" means the combination of still and moving graphics, color and sound interacting with the student. It is the very process that has captivated children with TV, Nintendo, and computer games. TodayÍs students seem to be born with the interest and the knack to use multi-media computers. Many parents report that their home computers have weaned the children away from the TV.

By age 18 children have spent only 14% of their time in school. What they do with the 86% of their time becomes the single most important factor in determining their educational success. So what do they do with their non-schooling time? One of the most influential educators is the home TV.


By the time a child is 17 he/she has watched television for 15,000 hours (that is more than 7 ½ years of 40-hour work weeks). By contrast, parents in an average family spends only 21 minutes a week in conversation with their children.



Our children are part of the video age. They have become visually centered. In the past two decades of Nintendo and video games, technology may have closed books, but it has opened a vast possibility for personalized, independent study through interactive multi-media.

In the past the price of a multi-media computer was often prohibitive for families. In the last year, prices have fallen drastically and we are now at the point where VCRs were only a few short years ago. It will very soon become obvious that every family needs a multi-media computer if their children are to compete in learning and in the job market.

Once a family has a multi-media computer, they begin looking for software. A lot of "edutainment" software claims to be educational. In reality, many of these products have very little curriculum value. Jostens took years and spent tens of millions of dollars to develop a legitimate, complete, core curriculum.

That curriculum was developed through the coordinated efforts of some of the top experts in curriculum development. The investment has paid off with over 11,000 schools licensing the software. Teachers love the software because of its impressive results. Unfortunately, budgets and crowded classrooms limit students to less than an hour a week on the computer in schools that are lucky enough to have them.

HomeQuest has secured the exclusive direct-to-the-home marketing rights for the Jostens Learning Labs adapted and customized for the HomeQuest Academy.

* One CD teaches reading, writing, math, and science for grades K-8„with 1180 lessons! There is an IBM and a MAC version.

* A High School Basics CD, and a High School Math-Mastery CD, are also available. They offer parents a full-time tutor at home for literally pennies a day.

Kids can now work methodically at their own pace to catch up with their classmates, or creatively and freely race ahead to avoid the boredom of the lowest-denominator class pace.

HomeQuest is uniquely positioned to provide the primary solution to the family education crisis. As the recognition of the problem (and the solution) increases, children will need a computer-aided educational system. That is the critical mission of the HomeQuest Academy.

The computer is personal, and yet impersonal. It is personal in that it allows students from age 4 to 18 full flexibility of time and subject. It is impersonal in that it does not embarrass nor reprimand the student. The computer doesnÍt go on until the student responds„correctly. The computer is the most patient tutor imaginable. If the student needs more time, it waits. If the student gets the question wrong it redirects the student back through the learning exercise to help grasp the concept, the question, and the answer. It is interactive with the student to provide direct "cause and effect." Students simply cannot slide by nor sleep through the lesson. It is bright, colorful, and most lessons have a story line with motion and sound that fascinates children.

Many teachers and parents agree that one hour of interactive computer study is worth 3-10 hours in the classroom because the student is immersed in the learning process.

The graphics were developed by experts with children in mind. The captivating graphics story line and user-friendly environment invite students to explore and learn at their own pace.

Kids and adults love the Home Learning Lab. Parents my have to control who is on the computer when. That usually means Dad has to wait till after student bedtime.

The lessons use "cross-curriculum" methods that incorporate the various core subject skills in the lessons. Students may need to use math concepts in a science or writing lesson, or learn history or geography in a reading or writing lesson.

The HomeQuest software uses a multi-sensory approach that requires students to use sight, sound and touch.

The system is non-intimidating. Students do not fear making a mistake in front of the computer like they do in front of a teacher or peers. They learn that making mistakes is OK and, indeed, is part of how we learn.

Perhaps the most valuable feature is that it encourages critical and creative thinking.

HomeQuest Academy home-schoolersÍ experience has shown that the program motivates unmotivated learners. "Do I have to?" turns into "May I?," „ or "When do I get to?" They tell us that the system works with a variety of learning styles and reminds us of the growing need for basic computer skills in the work place.

HomeQuest home-school mothers find that the Home Learning Lab gives little ones a great head start while moms are busy with older siblings. And another teaching mom tells us that the computer reduces the clutter and mess of a home classroom.

The HomeQuest software can help develop cooperation, creativity, and a "discovery attitude." It is a mojor breakthrough. It is a viable solution to the problem of helping children prepare for successful living.

The HomeQuest solution also provides an exciting income opportunity. You can become part of the solution to this national education crisis, and increase your financial security while enjoying the fun of it all by showing people how they can change the world, starting with their own children and then helping other parents and children.



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