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The power of the weblog as an effective tool for communicating the truth is clearly displayed in this excellent analysis and commentary of a television news report in Oklahoma:
Nick Winkler, a reporter at KWTV News 9 television station, has almost doubled the Orwellian standard. Instead of a mere [...]
News and Commentary: Alaskan strings ensnarl home educating families
HEM News & Commentary blogger Valerie Moon reports on a situation in Alaska that should help homeschoolers in other states understand why so many have voiced serious concerns about the direction in which cyber and charter schools are pushing families:
The author of the article went on to [...]
The Week Magazine
Hats off to The Week magazine for getting the historical beginnings of homeschooling right:
The movement started as an offshoot of 1960s counterculture. Education reformers began questioning whether the nation’s schools were helping or hurting American children. One of the leaders of the charge was John Holt, a former fifth-grade teacher. Holt argued in [...]
Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska: Letters
A letter to the editor in today’s Anchorage Daily News, the state’s largest newspaper, calls into question Alaska’s highly successful and widely respected homeschooling law. The writer states: “There are unknown numbers of Alaska children not getting any type of supervised, curriculum-based instruction.”
The writer then explains, correctly: “State school law [...]
Homeschooler Christopher Paolini is back in the news again with his fantasy novel Eragon, this time, as HEM blogger Daryl Cobranchi notes, Christopher’s sequel is the subject of a good article in this week’s Time magazine.
In an article titled The Real-Life Boy Wizard, writer Lev Grossman notes, “At 15, Christopher Paolini created the best-selling [...]
