The School District Is Dead, Long Live the Schools explores a trend in public schools. More and more students are going to charter schools. The article concludes with:
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The bottom line is that charter schools give school leaders, teachers, and parents much more control over staffing and finances while also freeing them from the economic consequences of belonging to a district that has been in financial distress for decades. A school district may become financially bankrupt, but individual schools can live on through the charter school process. It raises the question: As a nation, should we continue to support large school districts at the expense of individual schools and students? Oakland school district spokesman Troy Flint speaks the truth to power when he says that “ASCEND is a canary in the coal mine, and that fact has shaken people, that's no question.”
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Are Americans Leaving the US?
Last month I wrote about how to get rid of $132,000 of debt: move to another country.
It looks like millions of people are considering this. Meet The Growing Number Of Americans Who Want To Move Abroad starts with:
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A growing number of Americans is thinking about turning expat, according to a survey by America Wave and Zogby International.
The share of Americans planning to relocate increased to 2.5 percent from 0.8 percent in 2009. If this number describes the entire population, that means around 6 million Americans are planning on leaving the country.
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I think if some other country would just get their house in order that thousands of Americans would leave the United States. The problem is all the other countries in the world seemed to have problems just as bad and worse.
Here's a video reviewing some of the data on Americans who are planning on leaving:
Hat tip: Instapundit
It looks like millions of people are considering this. Meet The Growing Number Of Americans Who Want To Move Abroad starts with:
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A growing number of Americans is thinking about turning expat, according to a survey by America Wave and Zogby International.
The share of Americans planning to relocate increased to 2.5 percent from 0.8 percent in 2009. If this number describes the entire population, that means around 6 million Americans are planning on leaving the country.
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I think if some other country would just get their house in order that thousands of Americans would leave the United States. The problem is all the other countries in the world seemed to have problems just as bad and worse.
Here's a video reviewing some of the data on Americans who are planning on leaving:
Hat tip: Instapundit
NYT column on homeschooling
Margaret Heidenry write about being homeschooled in the 70s. Her column My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists starts:
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Tired of the constraints of the 40-hour workweek, my father, in 1972, quit his job in publishing. My parents were in their early 30s, and they had four children under 7. “But we still wanted to explore the world,” my father recalled recently. They bought six one-way tickets to Europe, leaving only a laughable $3,000 to subsist on. Young and idealistic, they thought they could easily educate us along the way. “Life itself would become a portable classroom.”
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And kind of fun, her father responds with I Was That ‘Home-Schooling Anarchist’
Hat tip: CA HSC mailing list
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Tired of the constraints of the 40-hour workweek, my father, in 1972, quit his job in publishing. My parents were in their early 30s, and they had four children under 7. “But we still wanted to explore the world,” my father recalled recently. They bought six one-way tickets to Europe, leaving only a laughable $3,000 to subsist on. Young and idealistic, they thought they could easily educate us along the way. “Life itself would become a portable classroom.”
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And kind of fun, her father responds with I Was That ‘Home-Schooling Anarchist’
Hat tip: CA HSC mailing list
You can do something that will long be remembered
From Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:
Perhaps the world little notes
nor long remembers individual
acts of kindness--but people do.
-Herm Albright
Bits and Pieces
August 2008
Perhaps the world little notes
nor long remembers individual
acts of kindness--but people do.
-Herm Albright
Bits and Pieces
August 2008
Our status on NaNoWriMo
Here is our current status on the National Novel Writing Month challenge.
Henry: stalled at 4,000 words. My biggest problem is finding the time to write.
My oldest daughter: struggling at 5,000 words. She's hit a problem in her plot she isn't sure how to resolve.
Send oldest daughter: Cruising at 20,000 words. She writes early in the morning, during her lunch break and in the evening. When she hits something she's not sure how to deal with she makes a note and keeps on going.
My youngest daughter: Stopped at 2,800 words. She did great for the first couple days and then got distracted.
Henry: stalled at 4,000 words. My biggest problem is finding the time to write.
My oldest daughter: struggling at 5,000 words. She's hit a problem in her plot she isn't sure how to resolve.
Send oldest daughter: Cruising at 20,000 words. She writes early in the morning, during her lunch break and in the evening. When she hits something she's not sure how to deal with she makes a note and keeps on going.
My youngest daughter: Stopped at 2,800 words. She did great for the first couple days and then got distracted.
Good article about the benefits of homeschooling
How to Raise Your Child’s ACT Score and College GPA starts off talking about how so few graduates from public high schools are ready for college. The article has this startling line:
Across America, 75 percent of high schoolers will need one or more remedial classes before they are ready for college.
I had known it was bad, but I hadn't realized it was this bad.
Then the article points out that homeschoolers do not have the same problem. It reports on a study done by Michael Cogan. CBS News listed some of the findings of Mr. Cogan's study:
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Homeschool students earned a higher ACT score (26.5) versus 25.0 for other incoming freshmen.
Homeschool students earned more college credits (14.7) prior to their freshmen year than other students (6.0).
Homeschooled freshmen were less likely to live on campus (72.4%) than the rest of the freshmen class (92.7%).
Homeschoolers were more likely to identify themselves as Roman Catholic (68.4%).
Homeschool freshmen earned a higher grade points average (3.37) their first semester in college compared with the other freshmen (3.08).
Homeschool students finished their freshmen year with a better GPA (3.41) than the rest of their class (3.12).
The GPA advantage was still present when homeschoolers were college seniors. Their average GPA was 3.46 versus 3.16 for other seniors.
Homeschool students graduated from college at a higher rate (66.7%) than their peers (57.5%).
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It is a good article. And the comments are also pretty positive.
Across America, 75 percent of high schoolers will need one or more remedial classes before they are ready for college.
I had known it was bad, but I hadn't realized it was this bad.
Then the article points out that homeschoolers do not have the same problem. It reports on a study done by Michael Cogan. CBS News listed some of the findings of Mr. Cogan's study:
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Homeschool students earned a higher ACT score (26.5) versus 25.0 for other incoming freshmen.
Homeschool students earned more college credits (14.7) prior to their freshmen year than other students (6.0).
Homeschooled freshmen were less likely to live on campus (72.4%) than the rest of the freshmen class (92.7%).
Homeschoolers were more likely to identify themselves as Roman Catholic (68.4%).
Homeschool freshmen earned a higher grade points average (3.37) their first semester in college compared with the other freshmen (3.08).
Homeschool students finished their freshmen year with a better GPA (3.41) than the rest of their class (3.12).
The GPA advantage was still present when homeschoolers were college seniors. Their average GPA was 3.46 versus 3.16 for other seniors.
Homeschool students graduated from college at a higher rate (66.7%) than their peers (57.5%).
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It is a good article. And the comments are also pretty positive.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Cute: The Homeschool Kids Who Don't Do Anything
This is a great take off on The Pirates who don't do anything:
It is good to know your legal rights
Here are the highlights:
3. Be cool and be aware
2. Keep quiet and assert your rights
1. Never consent to searches
Go to: Flex your rights: The top 3 things to do in every police encounter and read the details.
Hat tip: Boycott Flying
3. Be cool and be aware
2. Keep quiet and assert your rights
1. Never consent to searches
Go to: Flex your rights: The top 3 things to do in every police encounter and read the details.
Hat tip: Boycott Flying
Sometimes we forget what our youth can do
Have you heard of Il Volo?
These seventeen-year-old young men are doing amazing things:
Hat tip: My mom.
These seventeen-year-old young men are doing amazing things:
Hat tip: My mom.
Friday, November 11, 2011
The problem with tests
Recently, a little incident in the car illustrated how easy it is for children to miss the point of their academic efforts.
My daughters use an online program from a private school. They log in and watch the class presentations, do the homework and take the tests provided by the school. The school offers history, science and English in both accredited and non-accredited formats. We've chosen the non-accredited option so the only one they report their scores to is me. If one of my children does badly on a test or assignment, I have them repeat it until they understand the material.
While I drove one of my daughters to a music lesson, she studied for a history test. Each test has a section where the student is required to fill in a time line with important dates for the time period they are studying.
As she is reciting the dates and events, my daughter listed a date followed by a single word, "Barbarians."
I questioned her about what that meant. She replied that "...that is what the teacher said."
I persist with "....but what does that mean?"
She responded with, "I don't know. That is all he said. This is what I need to put on the timeline for the test." She was upset at this point.
I explained to my daughter that if she doesn't know what something means, then that's a problem and that she needs to do something about it no matter what the "teacher" said. At this point I called home with the phone on speaker and asked one of the other girls to tell me what happened on that date and what does it mean.
My middle daughter explained to us both what the teacher meant (and most likely said during class.) The same teacher teaches both the upper and lower history classes. While it is possible that the material was not explained in as much detail to the younger class, I doubt it.
I preached to my now very grumpy daughter a little sermon on "this is why you don't go to school." I care that she understands the material. Getting the right answer on a test is pointless if she can't use the information.
To my youngest daughter, the grade on the assignment matters a lot, understanding the material, apparently not so much yet.
My daughters use an online program from a private school. They log in and watch the class presentations, do the homework and take the tests provided by the school. The school offers history, science and English in both accredited and non-accredited formats. We've chosen the non-accredited option so the only one they report their scores to is me. If one of my children does badly on a test or assignment, I have them repeat it until they understand the material.
While I drove one of my daughters to a music lesson, she studied for a history test. Each test has a section where the student is required to fill in a time line with important dates for the time period they are studying.
As she is reciting the dates and events, my daughter listed a date followed by a single word, "Barbarians."
I questioned her about what that meant. She replied that "...that is what the teacher said."
I persist with "....but what does that mean?"
She responded with, "I don't know. That is all he said. This is what I need to put on the timeline for the test." She was upset at this point.
I explained to my daughter that if she doesn't know what something means, then that's a problem and that she needs to do something about it no matter what the "teacher" said. At this point I called home with the phone on speaker and asked one of the other girls to tell me what happened on that date and what does it mean.
My middle daughter explained to us both what the teacher meant (and most likely said during class.) The same teacher teaches both the upper and lower history classes. While it is possible that the material was not explained in as much detail to the younger class, I doubt it.
I preached to my now very grumpy daughter a little sermon on "this is why you don't go to school." I care that she understands the material. Getting the right answer on a test is pointless if she can't use the information.
To my youngest daughter, the grade on the assignment matters a lot, understanding the material, apparently not so much yet.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Ask a question
This article from the New York Times solicited a bunch of comments with a similar theme.
The article asked students to reply to the following question:
Would you like to be home-schooled, whether abroad or where you live now, or would you prefer to go to a traditional school? What do you think are the benefits and drawbacks to home-schooling?
I could go on, but they mostly all said the same essential thing: Homeschoolers don't have any friends and aren't prepared for the "real" world. I will have to let my children know when they get home from band, soccer practice, community college, babysitting, play practice, church, a friend's house, co-op, or choir practice.
I find it interesting how peer dependent most of the respondents sounded. I hope more homeschooled youth respond and set them straight.
The article asked students to reply to the following question:
Would you like to be home-schooled, whether abroad or where you live now, or would you prefer to go to a traditional school? What do you think are the benefits and drawbacks to home-schooling?
In my opinion, i would never turn to home schooling. When you are home schooled, you automaticly loose the whole social experience of school. In the real world you need to be social. Otherwise you’re going to get know where....I would never home school my child because I would be holding them back from friends and the social life they will need in the feature. I would never even consider home schooling.
— Macie P.
My best friend is home schooled and is doing good. I think that home schooling is not as good when it comes to the real world because it doesn’t give you the human interaction that you need to succeed in life with. it might better than public schools because they can learn what they want and not what they don’t want to learn.
— Gage T
In my opinion, I am not in favor of home schooling. I think that it is important for a student to attend a regular school. This is because it will allow them to become more prepared for the real world. For example, it will allow them to work either by themselves of within a group of people. It will teach students important social skills that they will need late in life, such as making friends or learning how to compromise with others....— Mike D.
I believe that home-schooling doesn’t prepares children and teenagers for the ” Real world”. It doesn’t let children that chance to be in a social community with more kids or people. I think Home-schooling has his dos and dont’s.
— Ilenia P
I think home schooling can be benificial to the children but then its not always. Homeschooling wont really prepare the children for the world because they are not around many people and I think going to a traditional school is better because they will be more used to other people and the world or learning and with with others. I think the children would miss out on social skills and learning because all depending on the teacher depends on what the children learns.
— Eileen
I could go on, but they mostly all said the same essential thing: Homeschoolers don't have any friends and aren't prepared for the "real" world. I will have to let my children know when they get home from band, soccer practice, community college, babysitting, play practice, church, a friend's house, co-op, or choir practice.
I find it interesting how peer dependent most of the respondents sounded. I hope more homeschooled youth respond and set them straight.
Write an essay; have a chance at a prize
I like John Stossel. We have frequently referenced him on our blog.
He is having an essay contest. Here are some of the details:
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Teachers - Help your students earn LOTS of great prizes by entering them in Stossel in the Classroom's 2011-2012 essay contest, for students aged 13-18! And we have super prizes for teachers, too!
Teachers may submit an unlimited number of student essays (500-1000 words in length) on our web site between now and the Feb. 6th deadline.
Simply have your students view John Stossel's recent special, "Politicians' Top 10 Promises Gone Wrong" (view the streaming video here), and write an essay on the following Essay Topic:
"Why do you think politicians make promises? When they try to keep them, why are there often unintended consequences? Describe a promise made by a current politician or political candidate from any party, and discuss whether or not they will be able to keep that promise and what, if any, are some potential unintended consequences from that promise. Please use at least one example from the Stossel special or other Stossel report to support your response."
We are offering your students 225 CASH PRIZES totaling $23,000! First and second place winners will also receive an all-expense-paid trip to New York City for themselves, an adult chaperone each, and the teachers who submitted their essays to see a live taping of STOSSEL. Click this link for complete rules and submission information.
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I have asked my daughters to each write an essay.
He is having an essay contest. Here are some of the details:
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Teachers - Help your students earn LOTS of great prizes by entering them in Stossel in the Classroom's 2011-2012 essay contest, for students aged 13-18! And we have super prizes for teachers, too!
Teachers may submit an unlimited number of student essays (500-1000 words in length) on our web site between now and the Feb. 6th deadline.
Simply have your students view John Stossel's recent special, "Politicians' Top 10 Promises Gone Wrong" (view the streaming video here), and write an essay on the following Essay Topic:
"Why do you think politicians make promises? When they try to keep them, why are there often unintended consequences? Describe a promise made by a current politician or political candidate from any party, and discuss whether or not they will be able to keep that promise and what, if any, are some potential unintended consequences from that promise. Please use at least one example from the Stossel special or other Stossel report to support your response."
We are offering your students 225 CASH PRIZES totaling $23,000! First and second place winners will also receive an all-expense-paid trip to New York City for themselves, an adult chaperone each, and the teachers who submitted their essays to see a live taping of STOSSEL. Click this link for complete rules and submission information.
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I have asked my daughters to each write an essay.
Reminder - send in a post for the next Carnival of Homeschooling
Please remember to send in a post about homeschooling for the next Carnival of Homeschooling.
Next week's carnival will be held at Home School Dad.
Next week's carnival will be held at Home School Dad.
This will be the 307th edition.
Go here for the instructions on sending in a submission.
As always, entries to the Carnival of Homeschooling are due Monday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Some other homeschooling carnivals
The latest Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival is up at Fisher Academy International.
The recent Homeschooling on the Cheap is up at 3 Boys and a Dog.
Classical Homeschooling Carnival #20 is up at Baby Steps.
The recent Homeschooling on the Cheap is up at 3 Boys and a Dog.
Classical Homeschooling Carnival #20 is up at Baby Steps.
The Homeschool Post is having their 7th Annual Homeschool Blog Awards
It is a bit hard to believe that we are now up to the 7th annual Homeshcool Blog Awards. Where did all the time go?
The polls are up and you can now vote!
There are twenty categories to vote it:
Janine and I are in the Best Family or Group Blog contest.
The polls are up and you can now vote!
There are twenty categories to vote it:
- Favorite Homeschool Mom Blog
- Best Homeschool Dad Blog
- Best Blog Design
- Best Photos Blog
- Best Crafts, Plans & Projects Blog
- Best Family or Group Blog
- Best Encourager
- Best Current Events, Opinions or Politics Blog
- Best Homemaking or Recipe Blog
- Best Teen Blog
- Funniest Homeschool Blog
- Best Special Needs Homeschool Blog
- Best Homeschool Vlogger
- Best Homeschool Variety Blog
- Best Thrifty Homeschooler Blog
- Best SUPER Homeschooler
- Best Nitty-Gritty Homeschool Blog
- Best NEW Homeschool Blog
- Best Homeschool Methods Blog
- Best Homeschooling Nature/Field Trip Blog
Janine and I are in the Best Family or Group Blog contest.
This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up - The Quotes to Ponder Edition
Richele is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at Under the Golden Apple Tree.
Interspersed in the carnival are a number of thoughtful quotes. For example:
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
- Agatha Christie
Interspersed in the carnival are a number of thoughtful quotes. For example:
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
- Agatha Christie
Another article about youth sleep deficit
Over the years we've blogged several times about how many children are not getting enough sleep.
Jennifer Moses drives this point home in Waking Up to Young Kids' Sleep Troubles:
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We're used to teenagers (SATs! Hormones! Facebook!), college students (can you say "pulled an all-nighter"?) and hard-driving professionals (billable hours!) not being adequately rested. Now we can add a new category of the chronically catatonic: preadolescents.
Take 10-year-olds who routinely wake at 3 a.m. with a nightmare or a wave of anxiety—and just as routinely move into their parents' beds for the rest of the night. Or the sixth-grader who's always tired because she has so much homework that, even when she finishes it on time, she's too keyed up to fall asleep.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, two-thirds of kids in the years through middle school aren't getting adequate sleep, which, for these ages, is 10 to 12 hours. James B. Maas, a professor of psychology at Cornell University, puts that figure higher, at around 85%. A study published in 1999 showed that about 10% of school-age kids through fourth grade fall asleep in school—and parents and experts will tell you that the problem, enhanced by the Age of Internet and iPod, has only grown worse. From Massachusetts to Oregon, middle schools, along with high schools, are now pushing back their start times so that students can get more sleep. Which is a great idea—unless it just gives kids yet another excuse to stay up late and watch TV.
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This statistic really surprised me:
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But sleeping tight is hard when 42% of children have televisions in their bedrooms, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
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Hat tip: Race to Nowhere, The Dark Side of America's Achievement Culture
Jennifer Moses drives this point home in Waking Up to Young Kids' Sleep Troubles:
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We're used to teenagers (SATs! Hormones! Facebook!), college students (can you say "pulled an all-nighter"?) and hard-driving professionals (billable hours!) not being adequately rested. Now we can add a new category of the chronically catatonic: preadolescents.
Take 10-year-olds who routinely wake at 3 a.m. with a nightmare or a wave of anxiety—and just as routinely move into their parents' beds for the rest of the night. Or the sixth-grader who's always tired because she has so much homework that, even when she finishes it on time, she's too keyed up to fall asleep.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, two-thirds of kids in the years through middle school aren't getting adequate sleep, which, for these ages, is 10 to 12 hours. James B. Maas, a professor of psychology at Cornell University, puts that figure higher, at around 85%. A study published in 1999 showed that about 10% of school-age kids through fourth grade fall asleep in school—and parents and experts will tell you that the problem, enhanced by the Age of Internet and iPod, has only grown worse. From Massachusetts to Oregon, middle schools, along with high schools, are now pushing back their start times so that students can get more sleep. Which is a great idea—unless it just gives kids yet another excuse to stay up late and watch TV.
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This statistic really surprised me:
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But sleeping tight is hard when 42% of children have televisions in their bedrooms, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
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Hat tip: Race to Nowhere, The Dark Side of America's Achievement Culture
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Monday, November 07, 2011
The benefits of homeschooling from the eyes of a fifteen-year-old
Recently I have asked two of my daughters what they liked about homeschooling. Today I asked my middle daughter. She thought about it for a while and then told me:
1) She liked being able to work with us on what classes she took. She liked having input and being able to be part of the decision process.
2) She recognizes that she gets along better with her sisters because they spend a lot of time together. Some of her friends are not very close to their siblings.
3) She likes the flexibility of being to accomplish her work on her schedule. If she masters a new concept she can move on to the next and not be forced to spend a full hour on some new idea.
4) And she likes that she gets lots of babysitting jobs. Over half the money she is earning right now comes from babysitting young children during school hours.
You can read what her sisters said they liked about homeschooling. The oldest said "The flexibility." The youngest said "Going your own pace."
1) She liked being able to work with us on what classes she took. She liked having input and being able to be part of the decision process.
2) She recognizes that she gets along better with her sisters because they spend a lot of time together. Some of her friends are not very close to their siblings.
3) She likes the flexibility of being to accomplish her work on her schedule. If she masters a new concept she can move on to the next and not be forced to spend a full hour on some new idea.
4) And she likes that she gets lots of babysitting jobs. Over half the money she is earning right now comes from babysitting young children during school hours.
You can read what her sisters said they liked about homeschooling. The oldest said "The flexibility." The youngest said "Going your own pace."
Will Dropouts Save America?
Michael Ellsberg has an interesting column in the NY Times. He askes Will Dropouts Save America? His column starts with:
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I TYPED these words on a computer designed by Apple, co-founded by the college dropout Steve Jobs. The program I used to write it was created by Microsoft, started by the college dropouts Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
And as soon as it is published, I will share it with my friends via Twitter, co-founded by the college dropouts Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and Biz Stone, and Facebook — invented, among others, by the college dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, and nurtured by the degreeless Sean Parker.
American academia is good at producing writers, literary critics and historians. It is also good at producing professionals with degrees. But we don’t have a shortage of lawyers and professors. America has a shortage of job creators. And the people who create jobs aren’t traditional professionals, but start-up entrepreneurs.
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Michael makes several interesting points. For example in reference to a recent study he says most jobs are not created at small businesses, but at small businesses with are startups. Old businesses which happen to be small are not creating lots of new jobs. The new jobs are created by small businesses which are young.
He points out how traditiona public schools discourage students from become entrepreneurs.
It would be interesting to see how the percentage of homeschoolers who become entrepreneurs compares to those from government schools.
Hat tip: Pat Farenga.
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I TYPED these words on a computer designed by Apple, co-founded by the college dropout Steve Jobs. The program I used to write it was created by Microsoft, started by the college dropouts Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
And as soon as it is published, I will share it with my friends via Twitter, co-founded by the college dropouts Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and Biz Stone, and Facebook — invented, among others, by the college dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, and nurtured by the degreeless Sean Parker.
American academia is good at producing writers, literary critics and historians. It is also good at producing professionals with degrees. But we don’t have a shortage of lawyers and professors. America has a shortage of job creators. And the people who create jobs aren’t traditional professionals, but start-up entrepreneurs.
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Michael makes several interesting points. For example in reference to a recent study he says most jobs are not created at small businesses, but at small businesses with are startups. Old businesses which happen to be small are not creating lots of new jobs. The new jobs are created by small businesses which are young.
He points out how traditiona public schools discourage students from become entrepreneurs.
It would be interesting to see how the percentage of homeschoolers who become entrepreneurs compares to those from government schools.
Hat tip: Pat Farenga.
"Growing Without Schooling" is now all online
Milton Gaither shares a great resource:
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In addition to many other wonderful historical resources, the site has every back issue of every year of Growing Without Schooling, the first national newsletter about homeschooling and the most important historical resource extant for the early years of the homeschooling movement. If you’ve never read through any of it I highly recommend doing so–Holt’s writing is lively and compelling, and many of the issues with which he was wrestling in the late 1970s continue to have resonance today. Issue 1 begins in August of 1977, and the final issue takes you to December of 2001. Most remarkably, it’s all free, just as Holt would have wanted it to be.
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In addition to many other wonderful historical resources, the site has every back issue of every year of Growing Without Schooling, the first national newsletter about homeschooling and the most important historical resource extant for the early years of the homeschooling movement. If you’ve never read through any of it I highly recommend doing so–Holt’s writing is lively and compelling, and many of the issues with which he was wrestling in the late 1970s continue to have resonance today. Issue 1 begins in August of 1977, and the final issue takes you to December of 2001. Most remarkably, it’s all free, just as Holt would have wanted it to be.
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