Education
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On reading, and waiting too long to blog about it
This fall, I re-entered the classroom to teach a couple of sections of freshman writing at the local community college. It was my first time back in 17 years, and I was continuing…
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What are the humanities worth?
From time to time I read articles about college and jobs. As my children are nearing college age, I always pay attention. For instance, this article in the Washington Post makes the point…
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Audiobooks, Physical Books, and David vs. Goliath
Recently, reading Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath, I found myself coming to terms with my audiobook angst in a new way. Audiobooks are a phenomenon woven into our family life since my children’s…
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Deconstructing Penguins
I learned about Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading in the blogosphere, where some homeschoolers have used it to great benefit as a springboard for literary study. It offers the…
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Educational Evolution
Higher education is touted as an essential feather in one’s cap if a white collar income is your goal. It is seldom touted as anything else, in fact; almost no mention is ever…
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Homeschool Vital Signs: A 9-Year Checkup
There is great value in not being able to – not being able to afford stuff, to having to wait and work really hard to get something. (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney) This quotation has…
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Education — or Brainwashing?
You know, it’s funny. Christians are often perceived and represented as brainwashed. They refuse “the facts.” They shelter their kids from “scientific knowledge.” Their “faith” is just another word for “willful ignorance.” Or…
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School Year Eve
It’s that time again: the school year is about to start, and the new books and other materials are looking shiny and attractive. Picking out materials is always a favorite part of home…
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Why bother?
“When we reflect that ‘sentence’ means, literally, ‘a way of thinking’ (Latin: sententia) and that it comes from the Latin sentire, to feel, we realize that the concepts of sentence and sentence structure…