I heard this homeschooling tip before I saw it play out in my own experience. I have since found this to be true several times. I’m having one of those moments right now. The tip is: Use your homeschooling curriculum, don’t let it use you. Otherwise stated, it is:Homeschooling curriculum is a to...

Mima Lau: Pisa tests 15-year-old students in reading, maths and science. More than 400,000 students from 57 countries and regions took part in 2006 when Hong Kong students came second in science and third in maths and reading. This year, 72 countries and regions will participate. The test takes plac...

Please welcome this week’s Featured Homeschooler Carol from My Heart’s Desire ! You live in my favorite place in the world, Colorado! Tell us about your nature studies. Nature study for us is taking a walk on the 75 acres where we live, driving down the road to one of the lakes or hiking...

Not much else seems to be helping keep down college costs, so maybe this will: a three-year college degree. It's an idea that's never really caught on, at least in the United States, but it may be gaining traction with the economy in deep recession. It's probably not a solution to the na...

Here's a little glimpse of how homeschool goes while mom is supposed to be resting with her feet up and gestating baby number three..... (don't ever say I haven't gotten nitty-gritty with the blogosphere, baby - this is the real deal): This is the mama 'nest'. Complete with lots of back support, lap...

Max Roosevelt: Prof. Marshall Grossman has come to expect complaints whenever he returns graded papers in his English classes at the University of Maryland. Prof. Ellen Greenberger studied what she found to be an increased sense of entitlement among college students. "Many students come in with the ...

Larry Gordon: he gray-and-green warehouse in suburban Concord seems an unlikely headquarters for a statewide detective operation, and the fact checkers at work there insist they are not mercilessly probing the lives of California's teenagers. Still, there is an element of hard-boiled sleuthing in th...

Humanity.org: The commencement ceremony affirms each student's search for knowledge. It often includes a graduation speech which seeks to put their recent hard (or not so hard) work into the context of their future. Many of us hear one or two commencement addresses as graduates or listen to a handfu...

There is a great campaign there at Global Voices, Teach Someone You Love to Blog or Miro-blog and a elementary teacher is in need of help as how to start blogging with her 5th graders, thing is she doesn't know how to jump start. Her colleague at Ed Tech Trek is trying to help her out and has some q...

I started off using Math-U-See with my older son. It worked. No complaints. So used it with younger son too. Late Winter 2008: Grade two for younger son, he was doing Gamma level (grade three, seven years old at the time). He struggled with double digit multiplication. No matter how I explained it, ...