There isn't a parent around who doesn't like free.  Today's homeschoolers, crunched by budgets just like everyone else, are no different.  Typical homeschooling families reportedly spend anywhere between $300-$500 per child, per year, on home education products.  Particularly in large families, this can really add up.

Enter Free-Ed Net, the homeschooling parent's answer to costly curriculum spending.  Almost too good to be true, the site offers on-line educational lessons and complete on-line courses in hundreds of subject areas, for anyone, any time, totally free for the taking.

Free-Ed.Net isn't just for the really thrifty and those completely pressed-for-time.  Most courses are very comprehensive and absolutely top-notch; not the abbreviated or demo-versions one might expect for free. 

Browsing the A-Z list of subject areas on Free-Ed.Net, you'll come across everything from algebra to Arabic, law to language arts, and truck operation to typing.  There are listings for psychology, journalism, nuclear engineering, Italian, anatomy & physiology plus cosmetology, too.

Clicking on a subject area reveals several, sometimes even dozens, of free Internet resources for learning that particular topic.  For example, the current list of free on-line "French" options included these resources, each very much worth checking out:

Speaking French from the BBC

LangMaster French

French in Action from Annenberg Media

The French Tutorial

Saving money aside, many of these options will be particularly appealing to families who enjoy using on-line curriculum products anyway, and even more importantly, to students who learn better this way.  Whether as a temporary learning solution or as a full-blown homeschooling curriculum program, Free-Ed Net is very much worth considering.  Find it at: Free-Ed.Net.