Teenscreen: Adolescent suicide and mental health screening programs
TeenScreen is a very controversial so-called “diagnostic psychiatric service” aka suicide survey; done on children who are then referred to psychiatric treatment. The evidence suggests that the objective of the psychiatrists who designed TeenScreen is to place children so selected on psychotropic drugs.
“It’s just a way to put [...]
Goddard College:Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers
The Undergraduate Program for Homeschoolers at Goddard offers young people, ages 14-19, who have learned independently outside of schools, an opportunity to begin earning college credit while continuing to learn in a self-directed style. Students design their own courses in collaboration with a faculty advisor, and may choose one or two [...]
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I’ve admired author Daniel Pink’s writing since his first book, Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live, appeared in 2001.
That groundbreaking book was about the growing ranks of people who work for themselves, often from their homes, and how their different and unique ways of looking at [...]
HEM’s Support Group News, October
Interesting commentary in this month’s Support Group Newsletter, edited by Mary Nix, in an interview with two homeschool leaders in Virginia, Shay Seaborne and Amy Wilson:
Although two HSLDA attorneys agreed that the illegal regulation had a “‘chilling’ effect†on those who †aren’t represented by counsel,†HSLDA was content to leave [...]
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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, [...]
