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 [...]
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 [...]
This is one of the more interesting routes to homeschooling I have read.
Friday, September 22, 2006 , a knife somehow gets from Tyler D’Allesandro’s father’s workshop into his school bag. He noticed it at school and showed his friend. A third boy “grabbed it and brandished it toward other students ‘in a [...]
There is a new blog in the edusphere tackling a topic near to my heart: gifted education. Unwrapping the Gifted, published by Teacher Magazine, explores the challenges of reaching these children in the classroom.
I had the pleasure of having two gifted children back when I taught, and it was a perpetual challenge to [...]
Reason to homeschool number 45: Even I couldn’t mess things up this badly:
After saying this week that 50 percent of D.C. schools might not have all of their required textbooks when classes start August 27, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee acknowledged yesterday that they could not pinpoint the [...]
Over at the Catoosa County News, homeschooler Jeannie Babb Taylor has a bone to pick with the “exit strategy” put forth by some Southern Baptists. It is actually an interesting article, with a few characterizations of conservative Christians which I personally would contest. I’m not “running from evolution, homosexuality or even drugs,” but [...]
An editorial in the Intelligencer (out of Canada) raises up the “disadvantages” of homeschooling based on the same stereotypes we hear everywhere else. It starts out all right, but quickly moves into the common stereotypes:
A significant example is the amount of time – not to mention money – it takes to prepare and [...]
The Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University ran an online survey May 19, 2007 asking what respondents thought should be done with the No Child Left Behind Act. The results are telling.
Renew law 23%Change law 48%Cancel law 14%Don’t know 14%Other 1%–newsPolls.com
I would like to know exactly what changes the respondents think [...]
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