October 8, 2008 – 11:02 pm
How much simpler can you put it?
If homeschooling represents an assertion of the parental right to influence how a child perceives reality, in the Millmans’ view the real point of this kind of education is to develop a person with the clarity to discern what is real. Learning, then, is less about amassing a certain [...]
October 7, 2008 – 11:09 pm
Serious doubts. All because of a humble little (and newly formed) Political Action Committee right here in Nebraska.
The New Nebraska Network (NNN), according to their website, is the “state’s premiere source of progressive online political commentary and community-building.” A rather partisan objective, but partisan political commentary is an important part of a strong and vibrant [...]
October 3, 2008 – 4:27 am
New Jersey homeschoolers may be facing quite a legislative battle if a recently introduced bill advances beyond committee. Currently, there is no real oversight, no requirements for testing nor even for notification unless the Superintendent requests information. This is all likely because New Jersey does not actually have a “homeschool law,” per se. Instead, homeschools [...]
September 23, 2008 – 9:29 pm
The Wall Street Journal has an “interesting” blog post about unschooling. Or maybe not. Actually, the piece chosen as a counterpoint to the author’s own child beginning his first full week of pre-kindergarten was odd, but I’ll get back to that in a moment. His contribution to the “juggle” (the theme of this particular blog) [...]
September 19, 2008 – 12:46 am
What will become of us as a society when we forsake our children? Tens of thousands of children who have been forgotten and abandoned by the system? Or, as the heading of the article warns (unless otherwise noted, all blockquotes come from this article):
Children we abandon at our peril
As the new school year begins, there [...]
September 17, 2008 – 1:40 am
John Borst, editor of Tomorrow’s Trust, a web-based journal of Catholic education, answers with a resounding yes.
This is in response to an article by Liz McCloskey, a doctoral candidate at the Catholic University of America, who took some time off her doctoral pursuits in order to spend more time with her two boys. Borst seems [...]
September 14, 2008 – 10:29 pm
What’s the matter with kids today? Well, Chris Erskine of the LA Times shares some thoughts, anyway. I think we are supposed to relate…hopefully you don’t, really, but I did struggle to not spew forth my mouthful of Assam over Erskine’s observation that perhaps there might be a better way.
“Maybe we should home-school him,” I [...]
September 11, 2008 – 11:46 pm
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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