Helen on September 1st, 2005

Home Education & Other Stuff » NRO ON ID
In the midst of an ongoing discussion about science and other stuff, HEM blogger Daryl wrote:
“…what is and isn’t science is not up to a popular vote. Scientists always have and always will determine what is and isn’t accepted science. Deal with it.”
It occured to me that [...]

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Helen on August 27th, 2005

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 [...]

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Helen on August 24th, 2005

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 [...]

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Helen on August 8th, 2005

Homeschool Freedom
“…Let it be very clear, I do NOT object to parents using a publicly funded e-school. I do however find it cruel to quietly let them think they are enjoying the rights and responsibilities that home education has to offer when they are actually enrolled in a public school, an entity with very different [...]

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Helen on August 7th, 2005

Natalie Criss: Ramblings, Rants & Remedies: Cross-pollination or cross-pollution?
Natalie – never one to mince words – has an interesting essay about a couple of homeschool players’ groups which seem bent on controlling the larger discourse. This directly relates to my earlier blog entry about Annette Jurczak’s project titled Clarity. Natalie writes:
These two groups seem to [...]

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