September 30, 2006 – 1:54 am
I haven’t posted much on No Child Left Behind here recently because I have another avenue to vent my frustrations with this act. Here are a couple of things I wrote recently, for anyone interested.
Secretary Spellings, do you want your children “left behind?”This is about her recent op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle.Spellings [...]
September 30, 2006 – 1:25 am
This is an old lesson I did with my daughter, but it remains one of my favorites.
We started by singing a hymn with the musical accompaniment of a midifile I found on the internet. I then printed off a copy of the food pyramid and we talked about it. First, in general [...]
September 29, 2006 – 3:20 am
Yesterday, I shared an article about the homeschooling case in Germany that was finally heard by the European Court of Human Rights in Strassbourg. I finally found a link to the actual decision (PDF) by the Court. The Konrads have strong religious convictions and find that school education does not suit their beliefs because [...]
September 29, 2006 – 2:39 am
Phonemic awareness is essentially the recognition that our language is made up of unique sounds. A phoneme is the smallest phonetic unit in a language capable of conveying distinction in meaning. For example /s/ and /m/ are different phonemes because they cannot be used interchangeably, ie., sat and mat are two different words. [...]
September 28, 2006 – 3:00 am
There are at least 40 cases related to homeschooling in the courts in Germany as parents fight for their right to educate their children according to their values, religious convictions and in the best educational and safety interests of their children. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany and the courts have consistently ruled in favor [...]
September 27, 2006 – 4:20 am
Today, Baby Bear found a millipede out back. For over an hour he played with it, watched it, and enjoyed its little tickle as it crawled over his hand. He named it “Wormy.” Wormy got to ride in his favorite cars and look at his favorite books with him. Then he [...]
September 26, 2006 – 3:32 am
We have been learning a little about wetlands recently, and learned that there is a very unique habitat close to us. All of Nebraska’s saline wetlands occur in Lancaster County. So today we visited the Lincoln Saline Wetlands Nature Center to take a walk and enjoy this endangered habitat. Of the estimated [...]
September 25, 2006 – 6:09 am
Sherry left a comment on my post Science Lagging? which I thought would be an interesting topic.
It would be interesting to hear just what your college taught about Skinner’s methods, and how these were supposed to play out in curriculum and classroom practice.
Indeed it would. For those who don’t know, I have a degree [...]
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