Posts Tagged ‘ homeschooling ’

Connecticut pandemic legislation

Judy Aron at Consent of the Governed looks at proposed legislation for public school students in the event of a public crisis. Her readers comment. CT Pandemic Legislation – Is It Anti-Homeschool? Neither rain or snow or pandemic, no matter what emergency arises you must still “do school” as the administrators demand it to...
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Massachusetts article is informative

Learning at home: Homeschooling another option for parents, children, 24 May 2007, Melrose Free Press, Beverly, Massachusetts Move over public and charter schools. There’s another game in town, and it continues to grow in popularity in Melrose and other communities. Home schooling, or “home learning” as some like to call it, was something of...
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BBC home ed interview

Gill, at the Sometimes It’s Peaceful blog posted a transcript of the program broadcast on the BBC’s Radio Five Live. Transcript: the Radio 5 Live home education debate. Debating home education this morning on Julian Worricker’s BBC Radio Five Live programme were: Julian Worricker (JW), presenting the show, Tony Mooney (TM), a ‘home education...
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Homeschooler is “countdown round” participant at MathCounts competition

At the annual MathCounts competition for middle-school children, held this year at Fort Worth, Texas, a homeschooler from Massachusetts was the top girl. Elizabeth Synge placed 11th nationally. Math problems hurt your head? To this whiz kid, they’re play, 24 May 2007, Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts “Elizabeth’s success doesn’t surprise me at all,” says...
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Homeschooling pro and con, again

A National Journal blog post reminded me of two articles I neglected to get around to last week. Blog post first: Beltway Blogroll, 24 May 2007, National Journal … Here are more blog bits to mull: – My wife is home-schooling our children, and I do my share when I can, so I won’t...
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Kansas newspaper does homeschooling series

The following series of articles is from the Lawrence Journal World of Lawrence, Kansas, and was published as the feature, Learning Outside the Lines, 13 May 2007. One of the interesting aspects of the series is the comments section at the end of each article. The readers of the newspaper are avid commenters. The...
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Guardian annoys U.K. HE parents

The annoyance: Educators fear for standards of home schooling, 13 May 2007, Guardian Unlimited, London & Manchester, England The government has issued its first consultation into the growing practice of home schooling to find out whether rules need to be tightened over how children are taught out of the education system. Local authorities fear...
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Teen homeschooler writes about homeschooling pros and cons

Home schooling passes the self-motivation test, 13 May 2007, Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts The reason home schooling is best compared with college is because you need the self motivation. In college, the teacher will not be on your back to get your work done. If you don’t do your work, you fail. That’s almost...
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‘Tis the season

At home-school graduation, the parents are part of the ceremony, 23 May 2007, Hilton Head Island Packet, Hilton Head, South Carolina Michael Pivirotto might not have been the only father to watch his child graduate from high school this month.But he probably was one of few who got to deliver the commencement speech. “It...
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Interloping homeschoolers

I doubt that this will become much of a problem, but I wonder if the school has similar concerns about private school students? Or new students from another town, or state? Or foreigners? Surely, anyone bumping a freshman-to-senior student from the first-place GPA position in the final stretch of high school would cause disappointment...
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