Category : Education
Gen X ‘Latch Key’ Kids Offer Wisdom On How To Entertain Yourself During Quarantine
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Mary Margaret Olohan – Families across the United States are refraining from their usual daily routines of school, sports, play dates, and extra-curricular activities. – ...
Let’s Expand 529 Plans to Help Homeschoolers Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
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Homeschooling—a few weeks ago the domain of about 3% of the school-aged population—made headlines this month as COVID-19 rapidly closed schools across 46 states, the District of Columbia, and...
Coronavirus Effect: We Are All Homeschoolers Now
Monday afternoon, President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force announced new guidelines in an attempt to minimize the coronavirus spread. Among other things, he stated,...
Why We Need to Take Education Back to Past Practices
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Sometimes the best way to go forward is to go backward. In 1899, the population of Boonville, North Carolina was under 200. It was a...
Coronavirus Reminds Us What Education Without Schooling Can Look Like
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As the global coronavirus outbreak closes more schools for weeks, and sometimes months—some 300 million children are currently missing class—parents, educators, and policymakers are panicking....
Is Bernie Right about Education in Cuba?
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spent a large part of the last week defending earlier statements he made regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba. While denouncing the...
Three Questions Bernie Sanders Can’t Answer
Senator Bernie Sanders is inching closer to securing the Democratic nomination for president, which seemed implausible only five months ago. Still, he has met or...
Trump’s Big Bet On Career and Technical Education
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Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history....
93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?
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In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the...
Families Today Have More Schooling Options Than Ever, But Nowhere Near Enough
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I am a glass-half-full kind of person, so while we could focus on the criticisms and some of the setbacks related to expanding educational freedom...