A lengthy exploration of IQ testing for kindergarten placement from the New York magazine’s website adds to the growing chorus of those questioning of the role of tests in our kids lives. This article’s focus is on kindergarten placement tests but also touches on issues of class, equality, corporate influence, and, offers insights into better [...]
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In 2004, a lady in Saugatuck, Michigan wrote a letter to the editor about how she felt that homeschooling parents are on an ego trip. The letter caught the eyes of homeschoolers.
About.com, “Homeschooling robs children”
So, now it’s 2006, and Ms. Boyce is again writing to the editor about homeschooling. Her viewpoint, as before, [...]
What is it that people don’t get about homeschooling? If the parents (or perhaps other family members) aren’t the ones working with their kids, then it isn’t ‘homeschooling.’ Yes, any number of hybrid structures can develop that are closer to homeschooling than not, to include occasional classes here and there, but any system where the kids ‘go to [...]
Last month, an education columnist in Mississippi responded to a letter from the mother of a first grade student who wasn’t happy with a classroom event. The columnist told the mother that she would just have to, in the parlance of the long-ago Edwardians, ‘close her eyes and think of England.’
Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jackson, [...]
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Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education From Birth to Adulthood, the 11th installment of Education Week’s annual report on state education reform was posted this week at the Education Week’s website.
From the Press Conference announcing the report, author Lynn Olson stated:
Quality Counts 2007 begins to track state efforts to create [...]
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