June 3,2008, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) introduced S. 3076: Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2008, which amends the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986 to allow for tax deductions for homeschool-related expenses. Unfortunately, I am a little dissatisfied with the handling this bill has received by both of the [...]
I wasn’t going to comment on the case in California since I have taken a pleasant week off from serious blogging but the lead paragraph of an editorial at SFGate caught my attention.
A California appeals court is showing good sense – and a feel for public sentiment – by reconsidering a sweeping ruling that undercuts [...]
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Homeschool: an American History by Milton Gaither. Gaither is a professor at Messiah College in Grantham, PA who has noted that “historians of education have not paid sufficient attention to forms of education outside of the public school system.” He is working to close this gap [...]
This is an old post, from May of 2006, but covers a subject I am looking into again this summer. it is interesting what a different perpective of nature you have when you make your own toys from the natural products around you. There are a few projects in one of the books we picked [...]
Vasilly, of 1330V, is researching a paper for an incredibly interesting topic: home schools and what public schools can learn from them. It is for class, but I hope she considers making it available for all of the rest of us homeschoolers who would likely drool over the opportunity to write a paper like that [...]
The North Carolina Department of Social Services released its report on four year old Sean Paddock’s death last week. (If you are unfamiliar with the case, I’ve included a summary at the end.) Most of the report makes recommendations for needed reforms considering the failures of the Department of Social Services in [...]
Once a Wounded Lily, Now a Desert Rose has a number of questions regarding homeschooling. In fact, most of her entry is a list of questions for homeschoolers. Before I get to that, however, I wanted to share what initially attracted me to her blog:
I love the Lord with all my heart and [...]
Update: A list of fundraisers going on to aid the boy scouts and their families. The Ben Petrzilka Memorial Fund is specifically to help rebuild the camp and include storm shelters.
Not that it really matters, but I couldn’t help but notice. One of the boys killed in the tornado that hit the [...]
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