Home School Talk
July 7, 2008
Topic: How Does Homeschooling Benefit Society?
This show is available for download by following the above link. The following is an outline of what you will find there along with links to the stories referenced. This is how the show was planned to run, before I lost the Internet connection and was [...]
In 1893, Katherine Lee Bates journeyed across the United States by train in order to accept a summer teaching position at Colorado College. Over the course of the trip, she became deeply impressed by the vastness and beauty of America. Upon reaching Colorado Springs, she traveled by prairie wagon to the top of [...]
I wasn’t going to comment on the case in California since I have taken a pleasant week off from serious blogging but the lead paragraph of an editorial at SFGate caught my attention.
A California appeals court is showing good sense - and a feel for public sentiment - by reconsidering a sweeping ruling that undercuts [...]
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Homeschool: an American History by Milton Gaither. Gaither is a professor at Messiah College in Grantham, PA who has noted that “historians of education have not paid sufficient attention to forms of education outside of the public school system.” He is working to close this gap [...]
A small human interest story appeared in the Grand Island Independent about homeschooling on Sunday that I rather enjoyed. Recently it seems that homeschoolers doing what any other American teenager does (put on a play, go to prom, graduate and go off to college) are getting a lot of press. But young Aaron [...]
Last month, I mentioned that I would be hosting a homeschool talk show starting in July. Well, we are getting pretty close to that launch date and I actually have a sort of mock show planned for next week you are invited to join. This show will be a live, call-in talk show [...]
The June issue of Heart of the Matter is posted. Please take a moment to read my article which is really more of a question that I have been batting around in my mind for a few months now. You will likely be hearing more about it as some of my thoughts are becoming clearer, [...]
A peek at what took out our internet connection last night. Maybe we should invest in some sandbags.
Marcy’s Musings and Tammy of Just Enough and Nothing More both found some positive articles about homeschooling.
And I’m working on a post and should hopefully have that up in a little bit….Scratch that. Here it is: WebMD [...]
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