The Local Angle: SCAD adapts recruitment strategies for …, 11 January 2008, SCAD Chronicle, Savannah, Georgia
Obviously, SCAD [Savannah College of Art and Design] is interested in recruiting high-school-age homeschooled students who want to study the arts, online via SCAD-eLearning or at SCAD-Atlanta or SCAD-Savannah. But the college also is interested in homeschooled students [...]

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Valerie on January 11th, 2008

New program, possible name change for Iowa Street School, 3 January 2008, Village News Network, Fallbrook, California
In March, parents of home-schooled students in San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties will be able to enroll their K-8 children in a new Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) alternative core program in language arts, math, science and [...]

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Valerie on January 6th, 2008

From Junkfood Science, concerning “Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ too risky”:
More proposals to regulate and license bloggers because we’re “too risky”
It’s a rare reporter with expertise in the field he/she is reporting on: one with a medical degree reporting on health and obesity, one with a food science degree reporting on food, and one with [...]

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It’s bound to get me in trouble (no guts, no glory), but the position of parents of unenrolled children asking for public school services reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine where he talks about women saying to their significant others during romantic interludes, “Come here, c’mere, c’mere, c’mere. No, go away, go [...]

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An online friend from Texas sent the link to this article, and included a Texas-specific observation.
There’s no place like home: Learning to teach a challenge to parents, 10 September 2007, Greater Houston Weekly, Houston, Texas
Home education reaches back to the roots of the nation and the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison and Douglas [...]

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