Dale and Lea Callahan came up with the idea for AskDrCallahan when they were homeschooling their kids. Dale and Lea started homeschooling when their oldest daughters were about to hit 6th and 10th grade. As they were picking out curriculum, they noticed that there was a serious lack of good, college prepatory, educational material out there. Rather than settle for less than what they wanted for their kids, the two electrical engineer simply teamed up to tailor-make courses for their daughters. They started contacting universities, reading countless desk copies of books, even going back to their old college professors and getting advice on what made a solid educational material the best it could be. When material was found to be substandard, they would add in supplemental material and even tweek the courses where they needed.

The standard, of course, was that the end products meet the approval of not just "Dad", but also Dr. Dale Callahan, the graduate professor at at a major university in Alabama: UAB. It took some time, but eventually after much research, and even more work, they came up with not one, but four, college preparatory math courses for their daughters. Satisfied that their daughters would now be able to enter the college arena well prepared, they thought they had acheived their goal.

But what took place next surprised even the Callahan's.

What started as a math solution for their own family grew into a much needed help for their friends, distant family, and even strangers that had heard about what the Callahan's had started. Soon, students started signing up to take classes from Dr. Callahan, excited to be learning a curriculum that was not watered down, but that would concretely prepare the students for college and university. Parents and students alike enjoyed Dr. Callahan's "real world" approach to math that was so different from the rote memorization they had seen previously.

Before long, the Callahan's found themselves holding homeschool cooperative classes out of their basement and so many students were eager to take these college prep classes that Dale and Lea simply didn't have the time---or space!--- to personally teach all of them, so they put the classes on DVD. and Thus, AskDrCallahan was born.

Aptly named, students are still able to "Ask" Dr. Callahan, and a whole staff of tutors, teachers, and general email-responders, any questions they come across throughout the courses using the Homework Help service that comes free with all AskDrCallahan courses. This commitment to detail, attention to students, and high standard of excellence make AskDrCallahan courses a much needed asset in the homeschool education world.