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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No Magic Bullet
The Virtues of Standardized Tests
In a piece titled, “Tests offer important feedback,” homeschooler Heather Duncan argues the virtues of standardized tests. You may not take standardized tests quite so seriously, and may even question their importance. Our ability to homeschool doesn’t depend upon test scores (at least not yet), nor do we get government entitlements when the scores...
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Online Learning and Homeschooling
The title and subtitle tells us what the article is about. Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills As Digital Learning Programs Grow, Educators Hope to Prevent Teens From Feeling Isolated Online high schools are growing more popular. Roughly 100,000 of the 12 million high-school-age students in the U.S. attend 438 online schools full-time,...
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- Staying InformedStaying InformedThe 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 un […]
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Standardized Tests
The title of an article from December caught my eye, “Race to the Top” a short run to failure. But the subtitle piqued my interest, Obama’s new education plan is inherently flawed in its ignorance of reality and the factors influencing the lackluster performance of our schools. So, food for thought on standardized tests...
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