Helen on October 20th, 2005

Happy As Kings
This comment appears in response to an opinion piece about the Washington Times at the above-named weblog:
HSLDA has been using the Washington Times to promote itself for years now. And the Washington Times uses HSLDA to promote its acceptance as a legitimate news source with a conservative viewpoint. Unfortunately, it also [...]

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Helen on October 18th, 2005

An Unschooler Takes on High School
From a friend’s new weblog:
After homeschooling all her life, my daughter Stephanie (Stevie) decided to go to high school this year. How will a 14-year-old who has never attended a public school handle it the pressures of classes, schedules and the big S word, socialization? I don’t know. Her story [...]

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Helen on October 17th, 2005

Happy As Kings: Membership drive?
In an interesting analysis of a mundane PR piece, blogger Valerie Moon makes a good point about the important differences between home and school:
People may choose to run their families in a bureaucratic style, but — in the grand majority of cases — homeschooling boils down to a family living together [...]

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Helen on October 12th, 2005

BostonHerald.com – Technology News
     Yahoo Inc.’s online news search tool on Monday added Internet journal entries as a supplement to professional media offerings – an experiment that figures to test the public’s appetite for information from alternative sources.
     Under Yahoo’s new approach, a keyword search for online news will include a list of relevant Web logs, [...]

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A to Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling – 10/10/05
Our good friend Ann Zeise tackles HR 3753 and explains why it should be of concern to homeschoolers and – with her usual thoroughness – provides scores of links to primary sources:
On the 14th of September, 2005, HSLDA announced the introduction in Congress of HR 3753/SB 1691, [...]

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