September 12, 2007 – 3:25 am
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 [...]
September 8, 2007 – 2:02 pm
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 [...]
Motivated to move into politics after a local teenager died of a gunshot wound in his arms, Newark Mayor Cory Booker has faced numerous challenges leading one of our nation’s poorest and most violent cities. The state recently took over the Newark schools after years of mismanagement and corruption and now dumps billions into [...]
Ok, with a title like that, I had to see what the article was about. It turned out to be a letter to the editor, but with an interesting question. For some background, Elizabeth is a very gifted young lady who was not able to get the services she needed in the public [...]
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