Here are (finally) my promised show notes. The show is available for download here: Home School Talk. I realized two thing during the show. I need to do a better job at preparing more stories than I could possibly cover and preparing for the fact that it will probably be awhile [...]
Note: Please join me at 1PM CST today for Home School Talk! (The show will be available for download after the broadcast and my notes are now available).
HSLDA has an interesting op-ed out in the Washington Times which I have come back to in my thoughts numerous times since I first read it [...]
What an odd thing for a principal to say.
“Why would we ever buy a book when we can buy a computer? Textbooks are often obsolete before they are even printed,” said Debra Socia, principal of the school in Dorchester, a tough Boston district prone to crime and poor schools. Reuters
It reminds me of that [...]
Homeschoolers in New Hampshire have had a fight this year with their state legislature over a bill which would have required them to file a curriculum plan at the start of the year, a provision that had been in an earlier law but was dropped. The final bill which was signed into law by [...]
I have been reading a lot about education early in American history recently, and some of my disparate thoughts came together a little today as I read Spunky’s post “In loco parentis .”
Before compulsory education laws, the teacher served the needs of the children under the authority of the parents. But when the state took [...]
The July issue of Heart of the Matter is up along with my article, The Value of Human Interest Stories to Public Opinion. After commenting on the number of human interest stories about homeschooled youth doing what any other American kid does around graduation time contrasted with two horrific abuse cases which made news last [...]
Home School Talk
July 7, 2008
Topic: How Does Homeschooling Benefit Society?
This show is available for download by following the above link. The following is an outline of what you will find there along with links to the stories referenced. This is how the show was planned to run, before I lost the Internet connection and was [...]
In preparation for launching Home School Talk (at 1PM CST TODAY!), I spent some time listening to a variety of talk shows to see what I liked, what I didn’t like and to try to figure out a basic format for my own show. In the process, I realized that the one thing that [...]
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