I’ve seen a number of responses this week to the news Nation’s Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal, including public school parent and volunteer Paul Beard’s post as well as Jay McCarthy’s link to Andrew Moroz’s piece. I don’t have a strong opinion on charter schools. But I do have an opinion on […]
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What do tests test?
August 21st, 2004 · Comments Off on What do tests test?
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Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in Your Home
August 6th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Looking through a homeschooling catalog I found 13 pages on language arts materials but then 2 for math. 8 pages for history and then 3 pages on science (mostly biology). Why is it so disproportional for math and science? What I want to find is a kit that we can use to learn about circuits, […]
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Schoolhouse Rock rocks our house
July 17th, 2004 · 2 Comments
As a family this week we have been enjoying the Schoolhouse Rock DVD I borrowed from the library. The girls and I have been studying some American history and I seemed to remember something I saw on a Saturday morning between cartoons that helped me understand our country’s past. It seems I may have been […]
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Keeping Mom and Dad in the education equation
July 14th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Philip Greenspun tonight wondered whether high schools make sense in this era of airplanes and Internet. I’m beginning to wonder if the idea of a local public high school isn’t just a leftover habit from the 19th century when international travel was expensive and time-consuming and telecommunications did not exist. […] But for less than […]
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Girls with Scissors
July 11th, 2004 · Comments Off on Girls with Scissors
I want to draw like Henri Matisse said Abigail this afternoon while taking out her paper and pens. The other day we read a library book A Bird or Two A Story About Henri Matisse by Bijon Le Tord. I don’t know much about Matisse myself, and this book is an introduction to his style […]
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