Posts Tagged ‘ homeschoolers ’

The subject wasn’t homeschooling

This is one of those reports that show up and make me wonder how it got into Google’s homeschooling pile. Leman: Don’t pick school for wrong reasons, 14 August 2007, Tucson Citizen, Tucson, Arizona Question: We have chosen a small, private school for our children. We like the school a lot, but I worry...
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Connecticut town will stop teens from taking adult ed classes

Hartford will stop teens from taking adult education classes, 7 August 2007, Consent of the Governed It is too bad that in Hartford, Superintendent Adamowski is are trying to force kids through a system that obviously doesn’t work for them. He should recognize by now that there are many kids who can achieve a...
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If the schools co-opt the term ‘homeschooling,’ what will homeschooling be called?

Do not stop the presses. The news isn’t earth shaking, just another brick in the wall. Focus on targets, not funding, 11 July 2003, OC Register, Orange County, California Q. I read your response to the parents who wanted to home school and have their student play CIF. Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District...
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Do You Have a “Growth Mindset”?

Chris over at O’donnellWeb mentions an interesting article in his post The Power of Praise. He links to New York Magazine’s How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse Power of Praise by Po Bronson (February 19, 2007 issue), which discusses potential negative side effects of praise, long noted in some homeschooling circles....
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Another branch of the Jefferson County Virtual School…..

Some of you may recall that the Ohio Jefferson County Educational Service Center entered the virtual school business a few years back, providing online curricula for school districts and for other curriculum providers. Home Educators were and remain a part of the target market for these programs. The January-February 2003 Journal of the Appalachian...
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Servile?

Servile, was one of the adjectives thrown out, among several others in a diatribe by a homeschooling freedom opponent. Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a PBS program that I’ve enjoyed in the past, has a cover story this week called Homeschooling Movement. As I’m listening, I’m not as optimistic as I’d like to be when...
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Documenting homeschooling

In my web travels, I found the following site states categorically the names of the first American homeschoolers. Home-schooling-news.com, Home schooling In modern times, although there were American families living overseas who were already homeschooling their children, the first parents known to homeschool within the United States were Tom and Mary Bergman of Utah,...
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Bonding: the homeschool difference?

In my newspaper this morning, I read David Brooks’s column (subscription) titled, “Of Human Bonding” in which he points out the link between oxytocin and trust and bonding. I think this may be the connection I’ve been wondering about concerning homeschooling’s apparent success in educating children when homeschooling is, for the most part, an...
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Homeschoolers in FY ’06 Defense Authorization Bill

Homeschoolers may be blindsided by the yearly Defense Authorization Bill, H.R. 1815, now before the House of Representatives. The companion bill in the Senate, S. 1042, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, is reported at the thomas.loc site as, "Latest Major Action: 11/15/2005 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Passed Senate with amendments...
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