August 31, 2008 – 6:36 pm
Join me on Labor Day (Monday, September 1) for Home School Talk’s first ever holiday special! (Monday, 1PM CST) The show is now archived at that link if you want to listen to it! This will be a shortened show, only half an hour, but will feature positive and encouraging stories about homeschooling. I will [...]
August 30, 2008 – 12:24 am
Rare for me, but a firm “what she said” to Valerie over at Home Education Magazine on the recent firestorm over vaccines and homeschoolers. Her conclusion, backed up with nifty graphs and summaries:
In any case, homeschooling is not the cause of the choice to not vaccinate. That cause, in the noted cases, is an objection to [...]
August 28, 2008 – 10:34 pm
Last week, Thomas Sowell almost wrote quite an interesting column regarding homeschooling over at Townhall.com. Almost. He starts off going one direction, more the tried and true direction of pointing out the failures of public education by pointing out the success of homeschooling. (All block quotes come from the article.)
When amateurs outperform professionals, there is [...]
August 27, 2008 – 8:09 pm
…but turn on the computer only to find an email that says a three year old boy is missing. And then an update that he had died.
I don’t know Marsha personally, but I’ve interacted with her online a little and she is a fellow writer over at Heart of the Matter.
It’s weird how small the [...]
August 25, 2008 – 1:55 am
Join us today at 1PM CST for Home School Talk. I will be interviewing Jube Dankworth of The Homeschooler Next Door. She used to do her own podcast so it was interesting to talk to her awhile before the show.
The show should also be available via iTunes now.
August 24, 2008 – 12:09 am
Startling, I know, but Adam Caller, founder of Tutors International, is urging homeschooling parents to plan ahead by calling him.
I’m not for a moment saying that home education is unable to prepare a child for university, or disadvantaging them in any way, far from it. The vast majority of home schooled children that I have [...]
August 22, 2008 – 10:36 pm
No kidding. This is what the Lincoln Journal Star says:
A national retail survey found that parents plan to reduce their back-to-school spending significantly this year. The survey by TNS Retail Forward said parents on average will spend $506 on school-related items this year, compared to $668 last year.
We just finished the last of our school [...]
August 22, 2008 – 12:46 am
The Nebraska Christian Home Educator’s Association just sent out an e-lert regarding Legislative Resolution 369 .
I will include the entire e-lert at the end, but here is the heart of it:
LR 369 was proposed by Senator Schimek “To examine policy changes that should be pursued in order to provide further guidance and oversight of Nebraska [...]
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