Posts Tagged ‘ education reform ’

Refusing the Carrot – The Tax Credit Issue

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Refusing the Carrot – The Tax Credit Issue

The New York Times put most homeschoolers into an undesirable, non-bid for fame.  We’ve been profiled as a special interest group wanting something (money) from these “new Republicans.”   I don’t know about many other homeschoolers, but I’d rather step out of this particular limelight of perceived hands held out. As an Illinois homeschooler,...
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State Tax Credits

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The New York Times opinion pages for January 5 includes arguments for and against the idea of state tax credits for homeschoolers, which is being promoted as a priority as the the newest Republicans in Congress seek to challenge the federal role in American public education, with an eye toward turning more power over...
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Turning Points

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Turning Points

Thirty-five visionary educators were asked: What was your schooling like? When did you realize that there is a need for an alternative approach? What have you done since to help realize that vision? What are you doing now? Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, edited by Jerry Mintz & Carlo...
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No Magic Bullet

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In No Magic Bullet for Education the Los Angeles Times takes a look at teacher evaluations, education reform, Race to the Top grants, standardized tests and more: The “unschooling” movement of the 1970s featured open classrooms, in which children studied what they were most interested in, when they felt ready. That was followed by...
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Little Progress on Reading NAEP

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Education Week has an article on the NAEP report on reading for grades 4 and 8: Little Progress Seen in Student Results on Reading NAEP – Catherine Gewertz “What NAEP shows us over the past two decades is that in reading there have been only slight gains and no...
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Why obey when we can choose?

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Two sophomores, writing for the Columbia Daily Spectator sum up the politics of education: Once again, politics has been successful in doing one thing really efficiently—creating controversy. In the midst of all this talk about the health care bill, the slowly recovering economy, and the ever-expanding war on terror, the Texas State Board of...
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Standards – Not So Incontrovertible After All

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Another Education Week piece is by Alfie Kohn, who makes some core points against standards which homeschoolers should be able to identify with. Commentary Debunking the Case for National Standards By Alfie Kohn I keep thinking it can’t get much worse, and then it does. Throughout the 1990s, one state after another adopted prescriptive...
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Common-Standards – Incontrovertible Logic?

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Education Week published a couple different takes on the standards debate. Here is the incontrovertible logic: U.S. Common-Standards Push Bares Unsettled Issues Familiar Themes Emerge in Resurgent Debate By Sean Cavanagh It is one of the simplest ideas in American education–and one of the most confounding: Elected officials and educators have been talking about...
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Race to the Top Final Application Released

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Nothing directly impacting homeschoolers yet, but.. But what really? There are powerful forces at play with a vested interest in the institution of education. Couple calls for legislative reform with the common standards initiative, mix it up with the mad dash for the money, and homeschoolers can not afford to ignore these reforms, panic...
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Can Teachers and Homeschoolers be Allies?

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The compelling argument which high school teacher Christopher L. Doyle makes about kids and freedom suggests so. In an Education Week Commentary, Growing Up Scripted And Losing Freedom Along the Way he suggests that few of his students think they will grow up to lead a free life. After exploring the state his students...
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