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What to Tell the Neighbors: Reasons matter: homeschooling, unschooling, and priorities
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What to Tell the Neighbors. A blog about unschooling and living as an atheist in the Bible Belt. Thursday, May 2, 2013. Reasons matter: homeschooling, unschooling, and priorities. Homeschoolers come to homeschooling for different reasons. I get that. But I do think some reasons for homeschooling are better than others. It is better to homeschool because one cares about children's well-being than because one wants to exercise certain parental rights. John Holt, the former teacher and founder of. Reveals m...
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What to Tell the Neighbors: Can we please stop repeating this "fact" about reading?
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What to Tell the Neighbors. A blog about unschooling and living as an atheist in the Bible Belt. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Can we please stop repeating this "fact" about reading? A foundation in my county has done all sorts of great work to improve the quality of life for local citizens. Thus I hesitate to criticize any of their efforts, which I think are mostly well-intended. But when I came across. To be clear, this statement is not original. It can be found, in slightly different form here. For my child...
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: June 2013
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Friday, June 28, 2013. From a comment by Chris on his blog, A Blog About School. FedUpMom - I hear you. It's easy to imagine some aspects of "student-centered" education (for example, some efforts at "project-based learning") being an utter waste of students' time. In my opinion, it's easy to imagine aspects of old-fashioned ("sage on the stage"? Education being a total waste of time, too. The PREP c...
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What to Tell the Neighbors: On leisure and busy-ness
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What to Tell the Neighbors. A blog about unschooling and living as an atheist in the Bible Belt. Saturday, September 20, 2014. On leisure and busy-ness. For both the adults and children in our family, one of the biggest challenges to forming and sustaining friendships is that nearly everyone seems to be busier than we are. For at least middle-class families, factors other than family economics play a big role in chronic busy-ness. In his 2012 op-ed "The Busy Trap,". Might children who spend all day in sc...
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What to Tell the Neighbors: My Freethought Radio Interview, and a Memorable School Board Meeting
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What to Tell the Neighbors. A blog about unschooling and living as an atheist in the Bible Belt. Friday, November 23, 2012. My Freethought Radio Interview, and a Memorable School Board Meeting. The Freethought Radio podcast is now available here. I'm sorry about the hiss in the background, and I'm going to ask the FFRF tech folks if something can be done about it. Second, while SSA's Walter Petit was still at the podium after addressing the board, Winters stated, "If I had things my way, we wouldn't even...
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A Better Plan for Iowa City Schools | profghowes
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Hoover Iowa City Is Alive! Citizens for Neighborhood Schools. A Better Plan for Iowa City Schools. July 26, 2013. Many members of the public in attendance at the July 23, 2013 school board meeting appeared to be unaware that two new Scenarios (A-1 and A-2) had been included in the Board Packet for the meeting that night. These two plans differed in only three aspects, so for the benefit of the taxpayers who read this posting, I will summarize these differences here:. 3 City High School gets no addition.
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A Better Plan for Iowa City Schools | profghowes
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Hoover Iowa City Is Alive! Citizens for Neighborhood Schools. A Better Plan for Iowa City Schools. July 26, 2013. Many members of the public in attendance at the July 23, 2013 school board meeting appeared to be unaware that two new Scenarios (A-1 and A-2) had been included in the Board Packet for the meeting that night. These two plans differed in only three aspects, so for the benefit of the taxpayers who read this posting, I will summarize these differences here:. 3 City High School gets no addition.
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Parenting is Political: Too Much Homework, Part 3
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Too Much Homework, Part 3. It's "summative" season at my kids' school—the period between March break and final exams when teachers assign labour-intensive final projects that count for a substantial chunk of the final grade. These projects are all due around the same time—because we wouldn't want kids to enjoy the warmer weather too. A perfect time, then, for me to resume the sorry saga of my family's fight against excessive homework. The trustee responded quickly. She seemed...
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Parenting is Political: October 2014
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Friday, October 24, 2014. The Debate about Digital Literacy: Moral Panics, Contradictions and Assumptions. The following is an edited version of comments I made as a participant on a "Digital Literacy" panel at the recent "Understanding Media Now" conference, hosted by the. Association for Media Literacy. We’ve been encouraged to be provocative here, so to that end,. It seems to me that the urgency surrounding this question is. This metaphor has been rightly criticized for lacking explanatory power and f...
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