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 [...]
August 21, 2008 – 12:41 am
This whole exploration of my personal educational history started with a satire piece written over at the Winston-Salem Journal by one Mike Koivisto. Who won the Write Scott Hollifield’s Column While He is On Vacation or Performing His Court-Ordered Community Service Contest with his indictment of homeschooling through an overdone stereotype. I began it the [...]
August 4, 2008 – 10:38 pm
Over the weekend, David Jesse of The Ann Arbor News reported on the expulsion of a ten year old from a Michigan elementary school after a fight near the end of last school year, highlighting the difficult situations many public schools face as they struggle with how to educate and protect all of their students.
A [...]
According to US Census Data (excel sheet, Table 11), Nebraska ranks 48th in the nation in per pupil spending for education, spending just $3,080 per student, well below the national average. Total spending, however, places us at 24th with $8282 spent per pupil. The difference is made up predominantly by local sources demonstrating [...]
September 27, 2007 – 6:13 am
Affluence is supposed to equal education, right? After all, parents all over the country scrimp and save to purchase houses above their means, believing that access to education depends on zip code. An interesting study out challenges that perception.
Marin County, CA, for example, has the highest per capita income of any zip code [...]
September 25, 2007 – 4:01 am
In name anyway. Because the name is too tied to Bush and Bush is unpopular. (Those were Representative George Miller’s, D-CA, words, not mine.)
So in all of the debate that has supposedly been surrounding NCLB this year as it comes up for reauthorization, all that we were really able to accomplish was a [...]
September 20, 2007 – 7:12 am
Thank you for the interesting discussion yesterday on my post about homeschoolers and abuse. Since commenter Elliot over on the homeschooling discussion on Asymptotia asked if “rewriting” was “one of the tactics that home schoolers use to try to get their point across,” I feel compelled to rewrite part of the quote I shared [...]
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