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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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 [...]
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 [...]
Selections from Escape from Childhood
Young people should have the right to control and direct their own learning, that is, to decide what they want to learn, and when, where, how, how much, how fast, and with what help they want to learn it. To be still more specific, I want them to have the right [...]
