December 31, 2006 – 10:05 am
Und einen guten Rutsch!
Each year, Sydney, Australia leads the world in New Year’s celebrations since it is one of the first major cities to ring in the New Year. Their massive fireworks display over Sydney Harbour attracts over one million visitors, not to mention the television viewers watching the fireworks hours before their own [...]
December 30, 2006 – 3:26 pm
There are two things I did not like as a classroom teacher and determined not to use as a homeschooling mother, should I at all be able to avoid it: textbooks and workbooks. Textbooks provide a general overview of a subject, but do not go beneath the surface to give the child a [...]
December 29, 2006 – 4:34 am
They ALMOST get it. But not quite. An article appearing on the Indianapolis Star website discusses those difficult middle school years, when students are facing more and more social problems that used to be reserved for the high school years.
Chances are, if you’re a stay-at-home mother, your kids are younger than 6.
That’s according [...]
December 28, 2006 – 5:47 am
Back in the early 90’s, I remember sitting in a computer science class looking at the sidebar in my textbook. It discussed an interesting computer program that could “read” the human mind. After some initial training of human and programming of machine, the technology enabled the disabled person to “type” a simple letter [...]
December 26, 2006 – 3:38 pm
The German Embassy in Ottawa has issued a statement, apparently in response to the volume of letters the embassy has received regarding the homeschool situation in Germany. Unfortunately, the statement is full of inaccuracies:
In Germany education is subject to provincial (”Laender”) and not federal law. Generally, school attendance is obligatory in all provinces for [...]
December 24, 2006 – 4:55 am
In honor of a New York tradition that is being revived this Christmas, complete with competition, I shall leave you with this beautiful fire burning until I return home. Should you stop by, please feel free to comment about any traditions your family shares.
My grandfather grew up during the Great Depression. For him, a good [...]
December 23, 2006 – 3:14 pm
The situation of homeschoolers in Germany interests me greatly, because I am a homeschooler and because I spent such a long time living over in Germany. The reason I keep bringing it up (beyond personal interest) is that the goals of the German state in compulsory attendance laws parallel the goals of many of our [...]
December 22, 2006 – 3:48 pm
I find the theme of this carnival intriguing. If you feel that there is something amiss in the celebrations of the season, check out the Carnival of Hijacked Holidays, IV, the Christmas Edition. Or if you can approach such things with the intended humor. If not, you might not enjoy it, but [...]
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