Especially for Teachers
Teachers Under Fire
Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!
Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is offering a new course on homemaking. Only women are allowed to take the course.
Apparently one of the topics covered in the course relates to equipping the students to do home schooling.
Read all about it at Aetiology.

… sort of…
Al Neuharth, the founder of USA TODAY, does not homeschool and seems to be a bit negative on the idea. He’s written a blog post opinion suggesting that “parents should give school-age kids wings” meaning, I think, send them to school.
My concern about our educational system is for those who aren’t part […]

The Grand Rounds carnival are ..ah, that’s is .. here at the Efficient MD.
The Infosciences Carnival of the Proffesoriate, neither of which is really a Carnival, I think, is here and here.
The Carnival of Homeschool (sic) which refused to accept my submission that was somewhat critical of homeschooling (”the Carnival of Homeschooling is designed to […]

Yesterday, our local Public Radio daytime show re-ran a talk by Pediatrician Mel Levine of the University of North Carolina at the Chautauqua Institution.
Levine’s work is about how children learn, in relation to how brains actually work. He’s got a website here.
Levine is an engaging speaker, and in my view speaks words of wisdom […]

From “Exploring Homeschooling” … a site that asks “Will your children believe in Jesus when they graduate from high school? According to this site, the answer is, likely no, with 94% of homeschooled graduates believing in Jesus as compared to a measly 15% of public school graduates. The citation for this comparison appears […]

The NAESP is the National Association of Elementary School Principals. With homeschooling on the rise, this organization would naturally be expected to address this practice on a regular basis.
I am interested in the relationship between the public institutions of education and the homeschooling community, so I took a look at some of […]

The Homeschooling Blog Carnival is out and can be read here.

Greetings.
I have returned from South Africa, and I’m now resting up from a busy trip in a cabin on a lake in in the North Country. From where I’m sitting, I can watch as three seagulls and two crows harass one of the two Bald Eagles that nest a few hundred meters from here. […]

Is it the ultimate home school? Is it a new Spielberg film? Or is it…..

OK, I love homeschooling but this may be a little too much:

15-Year-Old Performs Surgery in India from PhysOrg.com
(AP) — The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents’ watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records […]

Hey, I’m just saying…. PZ Myers reports on an interesting case of a child being toted around by his parents, following the will of god, as a corner “street preacher.” Hey, it did not occur to me to think this, honestly, but Myers asks “I do wish we could arrest all those parents […]

Home schoolers do not have enough words. This conundrum leads me to this question:
What is a homeschooler?
Is a homeschooler a child who is being home schooled? Or is a homeschooler a parent who is homeschooling their child?
In the case of the latter, is the verb a bit […]

This from Warrenton, Missouri:
A Wright City Board of Education member’s assertion that Hitler’s success and the shootings at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School were the results of teaching evolution has raised the hackles of several district teachers.
“He indicated that he believes that teachers are responsible for Hitler, Nazi Germany and the death of […]

“Evolution … not ‘just a theory’ anymore…” was experiencing technical difficulties overnight that may have made it impossible to comment. Sorry about that! The problem has been fixed.
Let me also mention that there is some mild to severe Greg Laden bashing going on here, on “Home Schooled.” You might as well go […]