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I caught up with the mom from my previous post — the one whose family chose cyber-schooling. Her kids are now in college, and she shared...

In my dissertation population, one of the families did some Cyberschool. The dad was a pilot with a very unpredictable schedule. The mom...

Homeschooling in the United States has deep roots reaching back to the first families arriving on the eastern shore. Often children...

Engineers on the Beach I was at the seashore today, and all along the beach front I found them: engineers. Children building and...

Talking With Children is So Important I like how the book I’m reading, about knowledge-construction or meaning-making, describes the...

Selecting or building a curriculum is not everyone's favorite chore. Kim, however, had a tremendous love of curricular content. She was...

Ravenous Butterflies “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:...

"When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and...

This article, Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How? , by Peter Gray, PhD, was published in Psychology Today and referenced on...

I was very moved by the wisdom of the educator quoted below. He/she managed to put into words the responses and arguments bouncing around...

The Wall Street Journal published an article in November called Is This the End of College as We Know It? If you are interested in the...