It seems that my post, No Child Left Behind Homeschool, has stirred up some controversy. So, I think I’ll revisit the subject and clarify what I was laboring, apparently unsuccessfully, to say.

We should be glad that kids today for the most part do not have to sit for norm-referenced testing every year. Criterion-based assessments […]

First, a definition. For the purposes of this article, and this blog for that matter, this is what homeschooling means:
Primary responsibility for education lies with the parent who designs a learning plan or curriculum that fits their child. The parent is free to pick and choose materials, schedules or even services for the child whose […]

Alaska has the most hands-off homeschool statutes in the United States. A child between the ages of 7 and 16 must attend a local school unless he/she is being taught at home by a parent or guardian (Alaska Statute 14.30.01). That’s it. No reporting, no paperwork, no sweat. Yet, the majority of homeschooling families choose […]

The New York Times highlighted a typical problem in the education establishment. Here’s some of the pertinent stuff:

A student needed a required course to graduate, did not pass the course and, thus, did not graduate.
She came back for a 5th year took the same course and failed again.
For the spring semester she enrolled in the […]

Part of the challenge of teaching older kids at home is staying digitally literate. At our house we joke about Planet 8-Track (where I was born and raised) and Planet iPod, a culural illustration from Earl Creps’ book Off-Road Disciplines. My kids are from Planet iPod. I try to keep up with what happens on […]

Change the way we teach kids; don’t just throw more money at schools. That’s what David Reaume wrote in today’s Anchorage Daily News. What a breath of fresh air from a columnist I rarely agree with. He discusses the potential impact of a recent court decision, Moore vs. State of Alaska.
A few years back […]