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• Homeschoolers and Achievement Tests

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  Dr. Yvonne Fournier answering questions from a homeschooling family which moved to a testing state. Some highlights about the inherent tension between homeschooling and achievement tests: Hassle-Free Homework: Achievement Tests Contribute To America’s Decline By Dr. Yvonne Fournier, U.S. School System Discourages Divergent, Creative Thinkers In a world that begs for divergent thinkers (people [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:20am EST
  by Mark

• Homeschoolers Compete

  Homeschoolers compete in a lot of different kinds of contests: From the Lincoln County Record, Pioche, NV – Established September 12, 1870 Panaca’s Cookie Crumb Trail Contest By Angela Musser The Christmas Tree Ornament Contest for Panaca’s Town Tree is now open to public and home school students. Argus Leader - Sioux Falls, SD Home-school team [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:13pm EST
  by Mark

• Race to the Top Final Application Released

  Nothing directly impacting homeschoolers yet, but.. But what really? There are powerful forces at play with a vested interest in the institution of education. Couple calls for legislative reform with the common standards initiative, mix it up with the mad dash for the money, and homeschoolers can not afford to ignore [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  by Mark

• 1st Reading New Iowa Homeschool Rules

  Iowa City Superintendent, Lane Plugge says, “If you want a diploma, you have to go to school here:” [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:14pm EST
  by Mark

• Making Waves in Academia and Cyberspace

  If you are concerned about homeschooling your kids you can find encouragement in this story from The Ukiah Daily Journal: Mathematics, Meyer Style By Carole Brodsky Ukiahan making waves in academia and cyberspace For the Daily Journal Holiday shoppers can thank Dan Meyer and his Ukiah High instructors for helping them shave precious minutes off [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  by Mark

• Race to the Top

  In formal remarks at James C. Wright Middle School in Madison Wisconsin, President Obama outlined the federal government’s 4.3 billion dollar Race to the Top awards. His presentation defined “four challenges that our country has to meet for our children to outcompete workers around the world, for our economy to [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  by Mark

• Questioning the Wisdom of New, Common Tests

  In a Letter to the editor published online and in print, Maryann Klaus, with 40 years experience as “teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent” questions testing: Why, when all of the research points to gains made by a focus on teaching and learning, formative assessment, teacher collaboration, and strong leadership, is the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  by Mark

• Homeschoolers and Texas Drop-out Rate

  This disturbing piece is from May 2001 and re-published yesterday online. Counts don’t add up, by Lucy Hood, Edmund S. Tijerina and Sharon K. Hughes. Some excerpts: To assess the extent of the dropout problem, the newspaper last fall began to track the 1,053 freshmen who enrolled at Holmes in the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  by Mark

• Homeschooling Because We Can

  In an article titled If School Is Cool, We Win, Author John Lewis takes us through his family’s first day of the school year through their approach to homeschooling. A few enlightening takes on the usual questions. Why we homeschool: My wife Anne and I have been homeschooling our children for [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:00am EST
  by Mark

• Mainstream Perception of Homeschoolng

  While homeschoolers will continue to live their lives according to their beliefs and convictions, public perception of homeschooling can make life easy or much harder. With that in mind, NBC’s Housewives series has written homeschooling into their script. From this week’s online summary: Reading, writing and respect: When Juanita lets a swear [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:20pm EST
  by Mark