State education officials plan to change the way they report on Oregon’s high school drop out rate this coming school year…. The new measurement system will also begin to categorize students who earn GEDs instead of high school diplomas as dropouts.
Oregon to change high school dropout tracking method
Found a great illustration of a Mom’s path to homeschooling. Titled Changes are a coming, the post includes failures of the institution, tension between homeschool and public school-at-home, and that bottom line focus on our kids that I have been seeing in homeschoolers for 30 years.
John Holt and the History of Homeschooling “His great legacy is the homeschooling movement itself, which, without his considerable guidance and patient nurturing during its most formative years, would today be a horse of a very different color.”
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The 100th Taking Charge column by Larry and Susan Kaseman offers a sampling of excerpts spanning the years since 1992 and covering topics still timely today.
In Learning 101 Tamra Orr explores the concept of capturing time… “What could be taught in those eight hours that is so vital that if missed, a child will fall behind?”
