Mark on November 10th, 2009

Iowa City Superintendent, Lane Plugge says, “If you want a diploma, you have to go to school here:”

Continue reading about 1st Reading New Iowa Homeschool Rules

Mark on November 4th, 2009

In a Letter to the editor published online and in print, Maryann Klaus, with 40 years experience as “teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent” questions testing:

Why, when all of the research points to gains made by a focus on teaching and learning, formative assessment, teacher collaboration, and strong leadership, is the government looking to increasingly restrictive [...]

Continue reading about Questioning the Wisdom of New, Common Tests

Mark on October 7th, 2009

This article on The Greenville News’ site points to the economy as a reasons for an increasing number of families choosing to homeschool.

With 345 students enrolled this school year, the Upstate Homeschool Co-op has seen its numbers swell dramatically since it first began as a small study group in Suzanne Brown’s Taylors home for her [...]

Continue reading about Economy drives more parents to homeschool

Susan on July 31st, 2009

Jefferson County Public Schools are getting some parental feedback about school building choice.  One 5 year old’s parent ‘left the building’ to keep her daughter off the bus and very close to home.
JCPS assignment plan causing frustration for many parents WHAS11.com
Amy Ashley left JCPS offices having just filed her frustration.
“At this point I’ve already mailed [...]

Continue reading about Louisville-Learning Closer to Home

Susan on July 21st, 2009

A new pilot charter school has been approved in Indiana. “The home-school effect” came up in the Journal Gazette, just as it often does in much of this educational trend’s media coverage, potential vendors’ marketing points, along with many legislators’ concerns.
Charter schools set for online trial run The Journal Gazette
by Niki Kelly Published: [...]

Continue reading about Indiana-”The Home-School Effect”

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 [...]

Continue reading about Connecticut-On being a “self-learner”

Susan on June 25th, 2009

I thought this article below was interesting, in that it came from business media in Dubai.  But the piece covered a Maryland homeschooling family, and the usual (not necessarily accurate) rendition of  modern homeschool history.
Homeschooling goes from fringe to mainstream in US
Emirates Business 24/7 – June 25, 2009
At the height of the hippy culture [...]

Continue reading about Going Mainstream

He envisions the conference attracting 1,000 to 2,000 people from every school district as well as private, charter, home-school and faith-based schools in Kansas City to the Sprint Center. Funkhouser told students at Metropolitan Community College – Penn Valley the education summit would double as an economic development confab in Kansas City.
He plans to borrow [...]

Continue reading about Kansas City Mayor Plans Education Summit ‘for All’

Susan on June 19th, 2009

Not so fast: Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten Jun. 18, 2009 The Globe and Mail Amira Elghawaby
Research shows home-schooled kids outperform their public-school peers. So why so is there little or no financial encouragement for parents to take it on?
Seated beside a mom with coiffed hair, polished nails and an elegant suit, I listened wide-eyed [...]

Continue reading about What Educational Studies don’t say…

That quote in the header was from a Cook County (Chicago) Circuit Court summary judgment in favor of the Chicago Virtual Charter School (CVCS).   Why were they talking about homeschooling in a virtual school judgment?  This week, the Chicago Teachers Union lawsuit claiming Chicago Public School/IL State Board of Education authorization illegalities was [...]

Continue reading about “Home schooling is a well-known and established means of education”

1 of 20 12345»...Last Page »