All Posts Tagged With: "homeschooling"

The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn

In the endless debates over political correctness, champions of PC like to argue that their foes exaggerate the harm it causes. If you study the issue closely, you’ll find that political correctness is not as bad as you think it is—it’s much worse. Diane Ravitch found out this unwholesome truth in 1998. A prominent education [...]

7Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 1 comment | Continued

The Harsh Truth About Public Schools

Prepare for a mind-altering experience as you take a scary but empowering read through Bruce Shortt’s book The Harsh Truth About Public Schools. The reader should not be deceived by what seems an overwhelmingly sectarian starting point in this well-organized, reader-friendly book. Shortt’s style is highly effective in convincing readers that the “public school” system [...]

18May2010 | David L. Littmann | 2 comments | Continued

Character Crisis Origin in Government Schools

Seven faculty and staff at Spirit Creek Middle School in Augusta, GA have recently been implicated in a sex scandal that was being carried out on school premises during school hours. With principals, teachers, and coaches like these, is it any wonder that so many students are becoming adults with corrupt moral compasses? This is [...]

11Dec2008 | Mason Drake | 0 comments | Continued

Court Holds California’s Homeschoolers in Suspense

Anyone interested in the nearly criminal mismanagement of the nation’s government-run schools need only do research on the acronym LAUSD. In March 2006 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogosa gave a speech blasting the LAUSD—Los Angeles Unified School District—for its “culture of complacency” and described the dropout problem in the district as “the new civil rights [...]

1May2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | Continued

Ending the Welfare State Through the Power of Private Action

Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. Despair about the current direction of American public policy is easily understood. In whichever direction we look, government seems to be growing larger and more intrusive. For example, in February the Associated Press (AP) reported that in spite of the 1996 welfare reform, which has reduced the number [...]

1Apr2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

North Carolina’s Educational Wall of Separation

In a little-seen corridor of the Department of Administration in Raleigh, North Carolina, near the state ethics board and just around the corner from the Office of Historically Underutilized Businesses (no joking), there is an office that represents a unique turn in state law. The compact quarters of the Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) are [...]

1Jul2005 | Hal Young | 0 comments | Continued

California’s War on Homeschoolers

Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California. I’m routinely astounded by the degree to which Americans will be outraged by government abuses that take place in far-off lands, while remaining uninterested in similar abuses right here in their very midst. My newspaper, the Orange [...]

1Feb2003 | Steven Greenhut | 2 comments | Continued

Can a Feminist Homeschool Her Child?

“Welcome to my home school—my private, little rebellion against the enemies of educational excellence and the forces of feminism who say a woman’s place is in the paying workplace.” —ISABEL LYMAN “A Mother’s Day of Home Schooling” In a peaceful mutiny against the quality and content of government education, a growing number of parents are [...]

1Feb2002 | Wendy McElroy | 4 comments | Continued

Toward an Educational Renaissance

Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls, a trustee of the California Homeschool Network, and a vice president of AOL. None of these groups—including his family—necessarily endorses his views. Can parents be trusted to educate their own children? The underlying assumption of America’s vast government school system is that they cannot. Yet [...]

1May2001 | Chris Cardiff | 2 comments | Continued

The Right to Home School: A Guide to the Law on Parents’ Rights in Education by Christopher J. Klicka

Home School Legal Defense Association • 1998 • 198 pages • $10.00 paperback While the title would suggest otherwise, Christopher Klicka’s book is not the kind of text most homeschool parents would pick up and read. In practice, homeschool parents tend to focus on how-to books and curriculum reviews, with a smattering of methodology thrown [...]

1Mar2000 | Karen Y. Palasek | 1 comment | Continued

Lessons from Homeschooling

The June 28, 1998, New York Times reported that 56 percent of Massachusetts’ up-and-coming teachers failed their basic test in reading and writing. This result means that well over half of Massachusetts’ freshly minted college graduates with degrees in education cannot competently read and write. Can you guess the response of the Massachusetts State School [...]

1Sep1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | Continued

Educational Decarceration

Daniel Hager is a senior research associate with Patrick Henry Associates in East Lansing, Michigan. When I was a teacher I reached a conclusion that put me at odds with the mystique that surrounds government schooling: the most beneficial times during the school year for many of my students were snow days. These kids were [...]

1Jul1998 | Daniel Hager | 2 comments | Continued

The Seduction of Homeschooling Families

Do the public school authorities feel threatened by homeschooling? Judging by their efforts to lure homeschooling families into dependence on local school districts, the answer is apparently yes. For the last several years, homeschooling has been the fastest growing educational alternative in the country. Estimates of its growth rate typically range from 15 to 25 [...]

1Mar1998 | Chris Cardiff | 21 comments | Continued

Educating the Difficult

Whenever the issue of “school choice” comes up for discussion, somebody inevitably will claim that the private sector can’t be trusted to serve the kids who are, for one reason or another, difficult to educate. Government schools are depicted as democratic, egalitarian institutions that take on all comers, including the toughest cases. Private alternatives are [...]

1Nov1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

Public School Failures, Homeschool Successes

Mr. Peterson is a homeschooling parent and a frequent contributor to The Freeman, Teaching Home, and other periodicals. Once almost unheard-of and usually relegated to the province of educational quackery and political or religious radicalism, the homeschooling movement has in the last few years blossomed into a serious educational option. A recent study by the [...]

1Nov1997 | Dennis L. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued

Homeschool Heroes

Of all the ingredients in the recipe for education, which one has the greatest potential to improve student performance? No doubt the teachers unions would put higher salaries for their members at the top of the list, to which almost every reformer might reply, Been there, done that. Teacher compensation has soared in recent decades [...]

1Feb1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | Continued

Teachers Unions: Are the Schools Run for Them?

Public education is the most expensive “gift” that most Americans will ever receive. Government school systems are increasingly coercive and abusive both of parents and students. Government schools in hundreds of cities, towns, and counties have been effectively taken over by unions, and children are increasingly exploited, thwarted, and stymied for the benefit of organized [...]

1Jul1996 | James Bovard | 2 comments | Continued

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