Things I Love About Working from Home
the sounds of children playing making breakfast sunlight on the deck the Great Blue Heron and friends the smell of dinner cooking watching her at work hugs the ...
Category: learning
Great Scientists
A friend of mine posted a Carl Sagan quote that reminded me of something. Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A f...
Time Enough
Apparently President Obama remarked on education yesterday. For decades, Washington has been trapped in the same stale debates that have paralyzed progress and ...
Four Years Too Many of College
Is a four-year college degree excessive for most? Charles Murray, writing at Cato Unbound, thinks a bachelor’s degree is unnecessary for most professions,...
Summer School
There’s been some concern among the professional educators about skills lost over the Summer since I was a small child, and that concern has not abated. W...
Are Guidance Counselors Superfluous?
The Arlington Central School District sends out a newsletter every now and again — oddly enough around budget season. This time it includes a piece titled...
Compulsory Education
via Arnold Kling, we learn that the State of California does not like home-schooling by parents who are not also teachers, on the assumption that certification ...
Use English, not Jargon
My elder daughter is in first grade. She loves to read almost as much as she loves math. She’s just started the thirty-third book in The Magic Tree House ...
The Pressure of Population Growth on Small Schools
Interesting piece on NPR this morning about one-room schools. They are about 400 left in the country. One in Croydon, New Hampshire, serves a population which m...