While homeschoolers will continue to live their lives according to their beliefs and convictions, public perception of homeschooling can make life easy or much harder.
With that in mind, NBC’s Housewives series has written homeschooling into their script. From this week’s online summary:
Reading, writing and respect: When Juanita lets a swear word fly in her school [...]
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A Fordham Institute’s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news.
Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate
By Nick Anderson
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de facto national standards for math [...]
In Different Perspectives: The Daily Illini Opinion Blogs, homeschooler turned college student, Colleen Lindsay addresses longer school hours, improved test scores and the lives of our children.
Lagging far behind the rest of the world academically, American schools have been struggling to catch up. Now, we take action!
The proposed solution is longer hours of schooling per [...]
Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
BY MATT JOHNSON
“I really got a sense of being a self-learner,” he said. “When you’re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that’s huge in college.”
But while he was able to [...]
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Maryland- Unschooling “research needed in order to justify it”
From home schooling to ‘unschooling’
By Joe Burris of the Baltimore Sun
If most [people] think back to their own school experiences, how much of the information you were expected to learn do you know today?” added Conner, an unschooling parent. “We cannot know beyond the shadow of a doubt precisely what our children will need when [...]
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