Posts Tagged ‘ public schools ’

NEA conflict of interest

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Conflict of Interest, Accuracy in Media, 28 August 2007, Washington, D.C. In 2003, the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ranked the United States 18 out of 24 competing developed countries in educational effectiveness. In the face of such negative results, one wouldmistakenlyexpect to hear American teachers passionately call for systematic reform of our...
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Other peoples’ children

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MANN TALK: Kids at Risk, 14 August 2007, Huntington News, Huntington, West Virginia Karl Priest, a teacher of mathematics in public schools for a number of years, writes in the Readers’ Forum (7-31-07) that children are not at risk from outside danger but from inside danger. The inside danger is sexual misconduct of teachers...
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CNN Report on “God’s Warriors”-Tonight

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God’s Warriors-Part 3 God’s Christian Warriors Thursday, Aug. 23, 9 p.m. (ET/PT) An excerpt: Other God’s warriors are fighting battles on a quieter, more personal front. In Virginia, Jennifer and Michael Nevarr are disturbed by what they perceive as the lack of God in public schools. Instead, they home school their five children, basing...
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‘About homeschooling’ articles from January

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BYU Newsnet, Provo, Utah, 11 January 2007, Homeschooling Presents Pros, Cons Neutral paragraphs: 12 Pro paragraphs: 5 Con paragraphs: 7 Fort Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, 16 January 2007, Away from home Another reality is that no matter how well-meaning and devoted home-schooling parents might be, they simply can’t be expected to demonstrate...
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Growth of sports league in Tennessee

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Cookeville Herald Citizen, Cookeville, Tennessee, 9 January 2006, New home for basketball “These guys that are home-schooled, we wanted them to have an opportunity to be involved in basketball and have a program so this league was available,” said Daniel 1 head coach Carl Bullis. “We’re the only home-schooled group that’s in it; the...
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Opinions — everybody’s got one

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Whether or not the article has anything to do with homeschooling, if the word appears in the text, it gets caught in the cyber-sweep of what’s online. The following blog article was posted concerning how there used to be consensus about teaching in public schools, but now there is much less of it. Homeschooling...
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