As usually EdWonks does a wonderful job of pulling together a number of posts on education from a variety of blogs for this week's Carnival of Education. Like he says it is nice to see the diversity of subjects.
Some how I missed a post on HeartKeeperCommonRoom about how you need to know the question of what does education look like before you can figure out the answer of should you homeschool. It had this great line: "Many people make those choices based on what they think education should look like without first asking the real questions- 'what is the goal of education? 'What does true education look like?'" As they say, read the whole thing.
Tim Fredrick points out that for children to love to read it helps to give them books they want to read, and then don't quiz them on what they read. I remember how a big part of the Robinson Curriculum was having the children read, read anything they wanted, as long as they were reading. I think Dr. Robinson had his own children reading over six hours every day.
Chris Lehmann asks how do the ideas and thoughts in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell apply to Education. Then in his next post he provides some answers. I did enjoy Malcolm' s book. Maybe when I get some time I'll try to toss around some ideas about how The Tipping Point works for homeschooling.
Jim Horn was in the Carnival for a post about how voters in Colorado decided to pay extra taxes so they could withdraw from NCLB. In poking around on Jim's blog I noticed a post about how Texas Governor Rick Perry is trying to find people who can teach, and avoid the whole mess of people interested in teaching being forced through education classes.
One teacher was upset that half the students in her class were getting an F. She said most of them just don't care. It would be interesting to do a study to see how many children in public schools just don't care, versus those who are being homeschooled.
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