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More shootings, and what does education have to do with it anyway?

December 11, 2007 – 5:40 pm

I wasn’t going to post on this. I have had enough of shootings for the moment. (In case you haven’t heard about it yet, there was another shooting, this time in a missionary training center and a mega church in Colorado. By a young man who was homeschooled in a Christian family.) But a [...]

By Dana Hanley | Posted in homeschooling | Comments (25)

Home affects school

December 11, 2007 – 2:10 pm

The Sun Herald ran a story this weekend with a shocking headline:
Home affects school.
This conclusion is based on a research report released by the Educational Testing Service in September which studied America’s achievement gap in light of key factors known to affect school achievement. Predictably, they found that discrepancies in performance between school districts [...]