Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Percentage of children being homeschooled has doubled through Covid!

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Just The News reports : The percentage of children being homeschooled in the U.S. has nearly doubled since the start of the COVID-19, accord...
Monday, April 05, 2021

Students do better when parents have more choices

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  In Free to choose -- and learn , Joanne Jacobs reports on a study which found that: "The more a state provides parents with the free...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

How big will the parent revolt be against teacher unions?

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  It will be interesting to see where the parent backlash against the teacher unions goes. Parents are pushing harder to have their children...
Friday, January 08, 2021

Teaching your children to pass the Marshmallow test

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 I like John Stossel's video on Parenting: Delayed Gratification: If you haven't heard of the Marshmallow test, we wrote about it ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2021

More evidence that higher education is suffering

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Colleges Have Shed 550,000 Employees Since The Pandemic Began has a nice chart showing a huge drop.   This line is fascinating:  Colleges H...
Friday, December 25, 2020

We wish you a Merry Christmas

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 We wish you all a Merry Christmas.
Monday, December 21, 2020

Around 9% of children are now being homeschooled!

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Reason's column on Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children reports that: Homeschooling, in particular, is booming....
Thursday, November 26, 2020

A fun way to take care of litter

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This is pretty clever:
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Happy Thanksgiving

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 I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

I felt a disturbance in the force - Colleges Have Shed 10% Of Their Employees Since The Pandemic Began

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This is a pretty big shift in higher education. Colleges Have Shed 10% Of Their Employees Since The Pandemic Began links to: Chronicle of H...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Freshmen Enrollment Is Down 16% This Fall

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Freshmen Enrollment Is Down 16% This Fall  links to a post at the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center which reports: Enrollment...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

I liked Stossel's report on Private School Success Around the World

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 I think the trend to homeschooling and private school will be accelerated by Covid.   John Stossel did a good report on Private School Succ...
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

Has homeschooling hit a tipping point?

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 Reason argues Homeschooling Hits a Tipping Point .  The article starts with: With the public school year underway nationwide—or else delaye...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Huge spike of new homeschoolers in Texas

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 This is exciting: Parents Withdrawing Students From Texas Public Schools To Home-school Increases 400 Percent .  The article starts with: T...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

NHERI - article: Big Growth in Homeschooling Indicated This “School Year”

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 The National Home Education Research Institute just published an article on  Big Growth in Homeschooling Indicated This “School Year” . Her...
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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Google may drive the final stake through traditional college education

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Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree explains: Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will ...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Character

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I love this thought: "Character is doing what is right when nobody is looking." J.C. Watts
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Thursday, July 02, 2020

It will be interesting to see how many people are homeschooling this fall

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Homeschool requests overload state government website  reports: Wednesday evening, the website for the N.C Department of Administration’s ...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

How many colleges and universities will survive?

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NYU prof: 'Hundreds, if not thousands' of universities will soon be 'walking dead' is a discussion about a point we've ...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

Think about where you spend your ounce

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Several years ago I came across this quote: "You say the little efforts that I make will do no good; that they never will prevail to ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

My daughter will not be returning to school this fall

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We learned yesterday that the university my youngest daughter has been at the last two years will not be having students on campus this fall...
Monday, May 04, 2020

More evidence of seismic shift in higher education - huge decline in enrollment

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Colleges Face 15%-20% Drop In Enrollment; S&P Lowers Credit Rating Of 25% Of Colleges  shares details from a Wall Street Journal article...

How are you handling the Quarantine?

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I hope everyone is doing OK. We are doing fine.  It is a little weird finally living Ground Hog Day. I enjoy how some people are dealing...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Interesting article about homeschooling and the coronavirus

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I found Harvard Law Prof Calls for Ban on Homeschooling, Saying It's 'Dangerous' to Leave Children with Their Parents 24/7 inte...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Is this how your conference calls are going?

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All of us are at home are doing video conference calls these days.  If you are also, you might find this funny: