Category: Education
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My homeschool prodigy
It’s hard to admit when you’re homeschooling a prodigy. You don’t want other parents to get jealous. But sometimes you just have to bust forth and let people know about your precious darling.
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Process over product: why does it matter?
When teachers talk to each other about teaching writing, they often talk about “process over product.” Most teachers try to instill this idea through how they teach. I think that teens, who often focus on the product, can improve their writing experience by rethinking their mindset and intentionally focusing on process over product while they…
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UC Scout curriculum: a new option for homeschoolers
Note: This post is outdated. I am leaving this post up in order to provide information, but since this piece was written, many more A-G certified options have become available. Check out currently certified providers here. Please see comments below for more recent feedback! I have known a lot of homeschoolers who have approached the…
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Authoritative homeschooling
One of the questions that new homeschoolers often ask is “how am I ever going to get my child to do any work?” Having had a child in school, they lament, “it was hard enough to get him to do homework!” Like everything in homeschooling, the answer depends on the family, their values, the choices…
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Are MOOCs going to destroy education as we know it?
MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, have lately been promoted as the new phenomenon that is going to destroy the university system. Why will people pay for a university education, the line of reasoning goes, if they can get the same thing online for free? And given that college grads are having so much trouble getting…