Like I mentioned yesterday, I will be watching President Obama’s speech to America’s school children with my children later today. We have little ones around here, so we’ll be using the elementary lesson plans, legal or not. Actually, we’ll be focusing specifically on this question, because it fits perfectly with some ongoing conversations we have [...]
Update: The text of the speech is now available. Is he seriously going to say “God bless you. God bless America” to every student in America?
Tomorrow, President Obama will speak to the nation’s school children, presumably about setting education goals and staying in school. At least that is what the White House is saying.
This is [...]
Amy Platon of Scribble Ink Cafe had an article published in the Orlando Sentinel advsing homeschoolers to stick with the system.
I have much respect for parents who take matters into their own hands in an effort to protect their child. But when it comes to home-schooling, I’m worried about the big picture.
The “big picture” appears [...]
Responding to an earlier opinion column, Should evolution be taught in school?, Kalamazoo Gazette reader Lawrence Kapture throws out some thoughts on home education.
Homeschooling is essentially a protest movement. Regardless of motivation, homeschoolers believe public schools are unable to prepare their children to live in the world. mlive.com
Perhaps for some. Or perhaps it was at [...]
It has been a long time since I’ve picked up a book that I could not put down. Perhaps I should be a bit embarrassed by the fact that I finally relived that pleasure of a book read in a single sitting with a children’s book. Or maybe not. I have always loved quality children’s [...]
Both the New York Observer and cityfile take a moment to poke fun at the wealthy and at homeschoolers as they take a brief look at a new education service in town: Quality Education by Design (QED), a sort of highly paid governess approach to education.
The New York Observer, for example, summarizes the program’s lofty [...]
Bill Heller, a public school teacher, has written a pretty good open letter to President Obama regarding education, highlighting the successes of his own school as well as problems that federal involvement has caused for public education through the passage of No Child Left Behind. (All block quotes are from the letter, but there is [...]
September 22, the State Board of Education will be conducting its final interviews to replace Doug Christensen as Commissioner of Education. I personally liked Christensen. I don’t know what his stance was on home education, but he fought valiantly for Nebraska’s STARS system and resisted education chairman Ron Raikes’ bill to require a single, statewide [...]
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