In these last few days before the end of another year, I find myself thinking about a Learning 101 column, by Tamra Orr, which we ran in our May-June issue, Capturing Time , in which Tamra explored the concepts of learning, schooling, and mostly, capturing time… “What could be taught in those eight hours [...]
Of all possible homeschooling resources – after, of course, such pipe-dream unobtainables as unlimited time and money – next-best is a library card. Kids vary certainly, but there’s no doubt, as Neil Postman said, that a magnificent education can be obtained solely through reading; and even for the reading-resistant, the library has a lot to [...]
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Linda Dobson’s new web site, Parent at the Helm, and shared her primary question for parents:
“Will the majority of your time and energy go elsewhere in the hope that a giant institution is giving your child the best, one-shot at education s/he can get? Or can you [...]
