Posts Tagged ‘ parents ’

Why Kindergarten-Admission Tests Are Worthless

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A lengthy exploration of IQ testing for kindergarten placement from the New York magazine’s website adds to the growing chorus of those questioning of the role of tests in our kids lives. This article’s focus is on kindergarten placement tests but also touches on issues of class, equality, corporate influence, and, offers insights into...
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Protecting the Spirit and Soul of our Children

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Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education From Birth to Adulthood, the 11th installment of Education Week’s annual report on state education reform was posted this week at the Education Week’s website. From the Press Conference announcing the report, author Lynn Olson stated: Quality Counts 2007 begins to track state efforts...
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Maybe this will be an annual event?

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In 2004, a lady in Saugatuck, Michigan wrote a letter to the editor about how she felt that homeschooling parents are on an ego trip. The letter caught the eyes of homeschoolers. About.com, “Homeschooling robs children” So, now it’s 2006, and Ms. Boyce is again writing to the editor about homeschooling. Her viewpoint, as...
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Newsflash: it’s private schooling

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What is it that people don’t get about homeschooling?  If the parents (or perhaps other family members) aren’t the ones working with their kids, then it isn’t ‘homeschooling.’  Yes, any number of hybrid structures can develop that are closer to homeschooling than not, to include occasional classes here and there, but any system where the kids ‘go...
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X-treme schooling

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Last month, an education columnist in Mississippi responded to a letter from the mother of a first grade student who wasn’t happy with a classroom event. The columnist told the mother that she would just have to, in the parlance of the long-ago Edwardians, ‘close her eyes and think of England.’ Jackson Clarion Ledger,...
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Preschool-at-home

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Stateline.org, Pew Charitable Trusts, 16 November 2005, Preschool gets record boost in ’05 At least 180,000 more children have access to preschool this year after lawmakers in 26 states boosted pre-K funding by $600 million during 2005 legislative sessions, the largest single-year increase for preschools in five years, according to a report issued Nov....
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    Student loan consolidation is a major problem in our society today.  Several years ago one of our writers wrote a good article about teaching your kids how to manage their money and make a budget.  Please take a look at this great family oriented article about smart money management. http://homeedmag.com/home-education-magazine/stop-student-loan-consolidatio […]

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  • Intrinsic Motivations for Learning
    “As homeschoolers we need to find ways to reach out to teachers and parents who don’t want to see childrens’ 12 years of compulsory schooling reduced to skills training for big business. Nurturing the human capacity to learn through love and intrinsic motivation is as important to life — to me, more important — as ‘learning for earning.’ Art, religion, music […]

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  • Class Dismissed
    Class Dismissed is a new movie in production which is questioning whether schools, public or private, are really the best education option for many families, and it will be the first feature-length documentary to focus on homeschooling. From the website: “From home study and kitchen table math, to perpetual recess and park days, Class Dismissed follows the s […]

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  • Everyday Mysteries
    Who invented electric Christmas lights? The Library of Congress sponsors the fascinating Everyday Mysteries collection: Did you ever wonder why a camel has a hump? If you can really tell the weather by listening to the chirp of a cricket? Or why our joints make popping sounds? These questions deal with everyday phenomena that we often take for granted, but e […]

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  • Staying Informed
    The issues facing homeschoolers today are fundamentally the same as 30 years ago when HEM was first published. While communication is easier the underlying social question is, can parents be trusted with their kids? Our political positions will support this answer in the affirmative. But this is not always the case nor is it always easy to understand the bes […]