Helen on August 14th, 2009

Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide from 2 to 4 pm Eastern time as part of National Public Radio’s ‘Talk of the Nation’ programming. Each week, Science Friday focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion [...]

Continue reading about Science Friday

Helen on August 13th, 2009

In Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling Robert Kunzman offers an uncensored look at the day-to-day lives of six Conservative Christian homeschooling families. From an urban, ethnically diverse Los Angeles municipality to an isolated elk ranch perched on Oregon’s Cascade Mountain, Kunzman journeys across the U.S. and profiles [...]

Continue reading about Write These Laws on Your Children


Helen on August 12th, 2009

Blogger and newshawk Valerie Bonham Moon takes HSLDA to task again for mixing homeschooling into the volatile health care issue in her post, “Health care reform politics from HSLDA“:
“I want to do things other than ‘react’ to HSLDA. Reacting is not on my ‘to do list’ and reacting interferes with what I am already [...]

Continue reading about HSLDA Mixing Issues Again

Helen on August 11th, 2009

In a post titled “What is the priority for HSLDA? Homeschooling or politics?” Valerie Bonham Moon examines the strangely spiraling-out-of-control situation involving HSLDA and the U.S. military:
“I’ve already commented on the inappropriate connection the National Guard has with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA): National Guard and HSLDA. The connection seems to [...]

Continue reading about Homeschooling or Politics?

Helen on August 10th, 2009

“Many of us grew up in communities with Truant Officers – the men and women in charge of assuring that all children were in school each day. The Truant Officer in our town made regular early morning visits to the bowling alley, the doughnut shop and other teen “hang-outs,” then made his way out into [...]

Continue reading about Truancy & Curfews

Helen on August 10th, 2009

An Open Letter to the Homeschool Community
August 9, 2009
RE: HSLDA and the U. S. Military
Recent events and respected publications are bringing to light the unprecedented depth of change the theopolitical agenda has created in our government. Homeschooling is always included in assessments of these actions because it is an intrinsic part of the theopolical agenda. [...]

Continue reading about HSLDA & the U.S. Military

Page 12 of 15« First...1011121314...Last »