Government Schooling At Home Still Requires Vigilance
I have never been a huge proponent of government schools. However, as parents, we have to make decisions based on our situations. Due to various...
Tag : Education
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...
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...
We Should Teach Our Children To Be Capable Of Violence
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh recently opined in a piece entitled, “We Teach Our Kids To Be Doormats And Then Wonder Why There Is A...
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...
“We” Should Not Regulate Homeschooling
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The desire to control other people’s ideas and behaviors, particularly when they challenge widely-held beliefs and customs, is one of human nature’s most nefarious tendencies....
16 Children’s Books You Didn’t Know Were Anti-Authoritarian
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Kids solving problems and getting out of predicaments on their own without the help of adults (indeed, often with their hindrance) is a common theme...
Rose Wilder Lane: Pioneer of Educational Freedom
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My eight-year-old daughter Abby recently started reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was prompted, in part, by watching the...