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 [...]
There you have it.
I caught an article by Adharanand Finn yesterday in the UK Guardian’s Mortarboard blog. Finn pointed out an August ‘o8 article [No School Like Home] about 2 authors who had followed some homeschoolers around. They discovered this :
Alan Thomas, a visiting fellow in the institute’s department of psychology and human development, and [...]
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A few weeks ago The Wall Street Journal outed a Babble post by Joanne Rendell, author of The Professors’ Wives’ Club.
Unschooling
Nonetheless, when I used the term “unschooling,” they needed an explanation.
“There’s no good soundbite to describe it,” I said, “just as there’s no good soundbite to describe school. But generally speaking, unschoolers don’t [...]
Hat tip to for the link to Diane Flynn Keith of UniversalPreschool.com
Protect Our Kids from Preschool, 22 August 2008, The Wall Street Journal
Our understanding of the effects of preschool is still very much in its infancy. But one inescapable conclusion from the existing research is that it is not for everyone. Kids with loving and [...]
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Living and Learning on the Farm
My daughter Sophia, the one who wears a princess dress to pick slugs out of the woodpile so she can feed them to the chickens, seemed content with Brian’s answer about meat. She was curious enough, too, to come out on the morning when Tom the butcher came to visit. We got an anatomy lesson [...]
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