Milton Gaither is excited about The Full 2007 NCES Data!. I suspect he meant the 2009 Condition of Education report, but, I am no less skeptical about the numbers, comparisons and interpretations of the 2009 data than I was of the 2007 data. Gaither provides links to the data (pdf) and promises:
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That sophomoric post at Teacher, Revised got a lot of attention over the weekend. I will admit that the title, “The case against homeschooling”, caught my attention and the post “#5ed” me a bit too. The attempt to bring the discussion to an adult level is welcome.
I don’t have much patience for that kind of [...]
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“We wanted a close family, and smart kids, but we also wanted to be not stressed. We wanted to have kids who were comfortable in the world around them, non-judgemental, and got along with people even if they weren’t perfect.” -Tammy Takahashi
“My primary qualification is that I gave birth to them, you didn’t.” -Spunky deftly addresses replies to a clueless antagonist ranting on homeschooling.
Valerie Bonham Moon writes: “Since the general public embraces the practice of testing people to see if they are qualified to work at a job, or hold a position of influence, I’ve put together what is perhaps the first test for non-homeschool writers who want to write about homeschooling.”
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance.
