The Virginia budget contains a sales-tax holiday for three days in August to allow families to purchase educational materials without paying any state tax. Yippee, what a cool idea. I know it was probably introduced to give public schooling families a break since the schools are requesting that parents foot more and more of the […]
Here’s a look at homeschooling in the news from around the world. There area variety of links you can choose from to read more about each piece. The highlighted text is quoted directly from the news source.
Southern Baptist Convention Declines Homeschooling Resolution
Winston-Salem Journal - Decatur Daily - Seattle Times
Leaders of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination […]
Just the sort of news I like to start my afternoon with! The HomeschoolCafe has a new post about the effectiveness of tutoring. Both historically and in modern terms, it has been explained like this:
Quality tutoring reaches beyond singular academic subjects by adapting to the needs of the learner and doing so in a fashion […]
An April 23rd article in the Las Vegas Review Journal discusses the beginning of compulsory education in our country and why government schools “are producing an ever higher percentage of functional illiterates… Just as they were intended to.” As John Taylor Gatto said in Against School:
“Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on […]
A great article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday, Learning On Their Own Terms, which describes experiences that can only be called unschooling at a, um… school.
At the Fairhaven School there are no tests, grades, or course requirements. There is no “typical student day” because each kid determines their own learning experiences.
For some this means […]
