Will Franklin has some good news. He has some graphs showing that violence and fear of violence at school has gone down from 1995 to 2003. The data is from a government 189 page report. I didn't see any analysis on why there has been a drop, but I only spent five minutes skimming the report.
SpunkyHomeSchooler has a link to a promise in Kalamazoo to give public school children a 100% tuition scholarship if they are accepted to state universities. She asks homeschoolers if the promise would be enough to send their children back to school. Of the 14 comments so far, no one has said yes.
Like Daryl Cobranchi, I greatly enjoy NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Today's picture of some young stars is pretty breath taking.
Joanne Jacobs comments on an article about how most high school graduates go off to college, but half never get a college degree. Joanne points out that at least part of the problem is many students are going off unprepared.
HomeSchoolBuzz has a link to a nice article about a family that decided to homeschool. A year ago the mother thought there was something wrong with homeschoolers. After a summer of study the parents decided to homeschool their three children, for three different reasons.
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