November 30, 2007 – 9:54 am
Massachusetts seems to have set off a national debate on the use of corporal punishment with its proposed legislation to ban the practice. State representative Jay Kaufman who is presenting the bill on behalf of the Arlington nurse who first proposed it says of the bill,
We need to have a serious public conversation, not [...]
November 29, 2007 – 7:48 am
I am not sure what is being cheapened here: women or our rights.
I have seen the advertisements for BITTEN, Sarah Jessica Parker’s new line of fashion, hanging in the mall and they bother me more every time I see them. Visiting BITTEN’s website, I find this increasingly offensive line of fashion has its own manifesto:
It [...]
November 29, 2007 – 7:09 am
Hey, I was nominated for a Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize for Thoughtful Homeschooling. I guess I have been out standing in my field long enough! Check out the Carnival of Education for the rest of the winners.
Standing on Isaiah 54:13 also nominated me for an award: Blogging with Purpose. I have a hard time [...]
November 28, 2007 – 7:07 am
Cat over at Dreams of a Country Girl has just revealed that she is maybe, might, kind of, sort of, possibly, perhaps considering homeschooling. I have been there and know from experience how frightening this decision can be. So I will attempt to answer some of her many questions from my experience as [...]
November 27, 2007 – 10:37 pm
Take a moment (or several) to check out the 100th edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling over at Mom is Teaching. It looks like Summer did a fantastic job yet again!
And in case that is not quite enough reading for your, the wild rumpus is going on over at Dominion Family for the 6th Charlotte [...]
November 27, 2007 – 5:44 am
Tammy over at Just Enough, and Nothing More is discussing the real world and how homeschooling relates. I have spent some time pondering what the real world is, how public school prepares and/or creates that world and what it all has to do with homeschooling for some time now.
I have not come to any [...]
November 26, 2007 – 3:13 pm
The Longmont Daily has an interesting article on homeschooling. ABCs of inhouse education takes a brief look at some of the different reasons people homeschool. The words of one of the homeschoolers interviewed stood out to me. Christine Vigorita removed her daughter from school in the sixth grade because of medical [...]
November 25, 2007 – 1:24 pm
I was going to join the discussion about certification going on between The Educational Life and Dewey’s Treehouse, but this I couldn’t pass up. An article in the Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, PA) outlines a workable solution to America’s public education problems.
What separates a great nation from one in decline is the quality of [...]
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