I liked Linda Seebach's column on E.D. Hirsch's new book The Knowledge Deficit. E.D. Hirsch wrote the series of "What your (Kindergartner, First, Second, Third, Forth, Fifth, Sixth) grader needs to know" books. In The Knowledge Deficit E.D. Hirsch makes the point that we don't learn in a vacuum. Linda Seebach explains: "understanding what you read depends on your being able to fill in from your own knowledge all the things the writer assumes readers will know and therefore doesn't mention."
The Head Mistress at The Common Room writes about schedules, and some of the things she learned in reading The Parents Review. From the Ambleside Online web site: "The Parents Review was a magazine sent to parents and teachers of Charlotte Mason's schools and correspondence-type homeschools between about 1890 and 1920." The Head Mistress found this quote: "In these busy days, no one gets through all they intend." This was just as true in the early 1900s as it is today. The Head Mistress concludes by saying we shouldn't get discouraged when we can't seem to do it all.
Isabel Lyman of The Homeschooling Revolution found a book review of Public Education Against America: The Hidden Agenda by Marlin Maddoux. I haven't read the book, but it looks like yet another book exploring some of the problems with the public school system, from a Christian perspective.
Christine at The Thinking Mother writes some of her thoughts about the pros and cons of homeschooling in regards to being able to meet authors of children's books.
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