Pro and con homeschool cartoons - more details
Just as journalists write about homeschooling from their own point of view, cartoonists draw their mini-stories while referencing their own beliefs about homeschooling. Recent cartoons point up the differences: Luann:  benefits of “social in...

Education is big business - more details
I’m still on vacation (just taking a short break waiting for the steam cleaner to cool), but I had to stick this next link up somewhere because if I wait, it’ll be gone with the wind. A search for background, triggered by query on an emai...

Learnscape Architecture - more details
Taking an online course takes time. A poorly designed course, or one that doesn't teach effectively, means lost time that can never be recovered. Time is one of the most precious commodities we have, but in our current economic climate, especially, cos...

eLearn Magazine - more details
Online education is where the business and academic worlds collide. So how can one take the successes of real life and apply them to the virtual classroom? By producing lifelong learners. Successful organizations are the ones that have developed genera...

Vacation, Holiday, Ferien, Vacances - more details
When one’s spouse takes a holiday, it is only polite to go along for the ride. I Love Social BookmarkingSubscribeDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUpon

Wall Street Journal addresses preschooling - more details
Hat tip to for the link to Diane Flynn Keith of UniversalPreschool.com Protect Our Kids from Preschool, 22 August 2008, The Wall Street Journal Our understanding of the effects of preschool is still very much in its infancy. But one inescapable conclus...

Why the diff between summer and the school year? - more details
One part of the daytime curfew situation perplexes me:  why is it needed when school is in session, but not during the summer? School zones, curfew also return Monday, 24 August 2008, Greenville Herald-Banner, Greenville, Texas The City of Greenville...

Op/ed on California decision - more details
Treating children like state property, 23 August 2008, Phoenixville News, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania In a decision being widely hailed as a victory for parental rights, a Los Angeles County court has confirmed, grudgingly, that homeschooling “is...

Homeschooling is growing in Brazil - more details
We won’t go into the schoolyard Portuguese I picked up other than to say it isn’t useful in understanding articles about Brazilian homeschooling.  Still, despite my lack of parlor-appropriate Portuguese, Brazilian homeschooling has cros...

Neither homeschooling, nor objective - more details
Hat tip to Susan of Taffie. More Students Hitting the Books Online. 21 August 2008, Las Vegas Now, Las Vegas, Nevada Thousands of valley children head back to the classroom on Monday, but for a growing number of Nevada students, that trek takes them no...