Education-industrial complex - more details
Dana writes about a network that I’ve thought about, but haven’t yet got round to putting into many electronically distributed words.   Shouting at home doesn’t count. The Education Industrial Complex This “complex” is of co...

Conservative Muslim homeschooling - more details
Homeschooling by conservative Protestant parents is not the only type of religious homeschooling that some writers object to.  Homechooling by traditional Muslim parents is also under fire. Teach Your Children, 8 May 2008, World Defense Review Reporti...

Tennessee diploma discussion - more details
Kay Brooks of TnHomeEd has a blog post about the recent decision by the Tennessee Department of Education “nullifying the Category IV diplomas of private and homeschoolers across the state …” Rob [Shearer] also explains that the bill...

Are there new developments? - more details
Today, both of my newsreaders, the one for news articles, and the one for the blogs I read, contained warning headlines that German homeschoolers are again under the gun.  One headline was from the HomeschoolBuzz, and the other was from World Net D...

FLDS sect children to begin homeschool? - more details
Sect children to begin home school, 2 May 2008, Corpus Christi Caller Times, Corpus Christi, Texas The children taken from a polygamist sect staying at a Corpus Christi emergency shelter will begin home schooling today. Delma Trejo, director of The Ar...

Learner on the Orient Express - more details
Standing in front of an audience is no easy task, as any talk show host or comedian would attest. Unfortunately when a seminar moves into the virtual world, capturing the attention of your audience can be even more difficult. How can you keep everyone ...

eLearn Magazine - more details
Irene McAra-McWilliam is a pioneer in the field of interaction design. In this freewheeling chat with eLearn Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lisa Neal, McAra-McWilliam delves into transformation design, the choreography of time, and what she has learne...

NPR report on the Paskowitz family - more details
Growing Up In a Surfer Family, Wipeouts and All, 8 May 2008, National Public Radio Paskowitz is one of the nine children born to Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, a onetime physician who in the 1950s quit his practice, dropped out of the mainstream a...

Riding high, sidesaddle - more details
Young horse rider wins honors with uncommon style, 30 April 2008, Post Tribune, Merrillville, Indiana A young, local equestrienne, Kaile Silvert [4th photo down], started riding when she was just 6 years old.  Now 12, Kaile is an accomplished rider wi...

Commencement speaker was homeschooled - more details
Grads get advice, 3 May 2008, The Monroe Evening News, Monroe, Michigan College graduates, take heed: don’t drop the ball. And make it your goal to help the people around you feel loved, respected and secure. These were nuggets of advice from tw...