The discussion over quality in higher education and maintaining standards of academic excellence in American colleges took an ugly turn March 2nd when Harvard law professor and former Clinton Administration lightning rod Lani Guinier declared that standardized testing is racist. Guinier’s remarks ...

Image byhttp://www.prestonlee.com/archives/67 via CrunchBase This is one for best articles by my of favorite content creator’s ! HOOK !  If you have children in school and don’t give this article some thought “don’t !” whine when they get their education on the str...

Just drove Young Son to Irish dance and musical theatre. Their performing arts studio is in a neighborhood shopping center with a sandwich shop and pizza place, a chinese food restaurant, a small computer shop — and a huge, very busy martial arts place with big glass walls across the front so ...

Great parody of Greg Laden’s anti-homeschool piousness passing as critical thought, over at Alasandra’s — if you can stomach the Tiny Cat Pants-style side show spectacle he’s staging in her comments. I still find it pretty tawdry but it IS hard not to gawk in disgusted fascin...

Did y’all realize Diane Rehm had a homeschool show this week? My brain’s problem-solving process has been 100% focused on specific math disability (dyscalculia) research and finding public education policy accommodations for same, so I missed the whole thing. But I’ve been there be...

Frisky cock of the snook to Dana at Principled Discovery for this “post-evangelical” find: Slobweiner’s theory was that the wretched condition of public schools would provide just the right platform for the excessive hubris and narcissism we wanted in “Christianâ€� schools. The outco...

They’re ba-ack . . . The ultraliberal scholars of “HomeSchooling Let’s Don’t Allow.” (so that’s what HSLDA stands for in their dogma!) Oh, and this time with art, of Apple at least. He said he was raising “black” children so I wasn’t sure about h...

Unity-N-Diversity is tackling this topic just as I did at NHEN beginning five years ago. I had progressed from the old legislative email list to the forums. I started a thread titled, “Individualism versus institutionalism” but as you’ll see reading through these notes, a homeschoo...

Breaking education news today: “Jeb Bush ally Yecke out as state K-12 chancellor” Is there anything left about public schooling that is truly educational rather than merely political? Yecke, a Republican who was briefly employed by a conservative think tank, dropped a [Republican of cour...

It got up to around 86 degrees today, Feb 28th.  That's right, in the mid-80's in February.  Only in Carlsbad, NM.  Really that part that makes it hard to believe is that it was windy and cold last week.  Go figure. Anyway.  We've got this testing stuff going on right now in...