Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

About a year ago, the violinist Joshua Bell played incognito in a Washington metro station. It was a newspaper stunt, and the Washington Post published an article about it. One episode was memorable enough that, a year later, it’s still worth noting:
..,it is Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” which surprised some music critics when [...]

[Read more →]

This is a beautiful site dedicated to understanding color. Learn what colors complement or clash, why, and how painters, web designers and others use color. Or just soak up all the color.

[Read more →]

Helen Hegener of Home Education Magazine skewers an entrepreneur who allegedly aims to “completely and effectively take over the homeschool market”.
I’ve waited two days to write this post, believing it’s best to err on the side of caution when the stakes are potentially very high. Having waited two days, and having considered all the harassing [...]

[Read more →]

New York’s Village Voice finds homeschooling getting more popular among the city’s African Americans:
In the 2006–2007 school year, the city’s Department of Education says that 3,654 students in New York were homeschooled. Most are white, but a growing number are African-American. Black parents tend to take their children out of the schools for other than [...]

[Read more →]

National Public Radio’s David Kesterbaum offers a profile of Kristen Byrnes, a teenager who challenges orthodoxy about global warming.
And she has a quality scientists try to cultivate: she is skeptical. Has someone made a claim? She wants to see the data.
That’s what science is supposed to be about, right?
I don’t remember how old I [...]

[Read more →]

It’s April 15 — dies irae, tax day. But many school teachers will be able to smile at least a little as they take a $250 deduction for what they might have spent on school supplies and such. If you’re new to homeschooling, you may wonder whether you can, too. The [...]

[Read more →]

The American school system still rests on foundations laid around the beginning of the twentieth century. Whenever we hear judges or legislators or school officials speak of the importance of turning children over to credentialed teachers, or of giving the system more jurisdiction over families, we hear the echo from those foundations.

[Read more →]

Because homeschooling can adapt the context to fit the child, rather than forcing the child to fit the context (or fail), it seems to offer a hope of finding the “ability” in “disability”.

[Read more →]

What we now call Ancient Greek literature, the Greeks called music. Masked actors sang the plays, and bards chanted the epics. So it’s one thing to read the classics, but another and truer thing to hear them as they may have been sung. Only a few fragments of ancient Greek music [...]

[Read more →]

As Artemus Ward said, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.”

[Read more →]