Category: Education
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What are we going to do about neighborhood schools?
Today someone sent me a link to this article in the Sentinel. The article is about how there is a discussion in the Soquel school district about what to do about the lopsided enrollment in their schools. Seems almost everyone wants to go to Main Street, only one family wants their kid to transfer into…
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The learning lifestyle: spinning and mixing
My friend Heddi of the Educational Resource Center likes to talk about “living the learning lifestyle,” and what that means for families. (She also has a new blog here!) We had a good example of it the other day. My daughter saw that one of her favorite things was in at the Resource Center. They…
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Making a school fundraiser pay
The first big fundraiser I was involved in was when my son was in preschool. The first year he’d been there, it was the usual stuff: a raffle, Scholastic book orders. Then the parents found out the financial state of the school — it turned out there was a five-figure hole in the budget and…
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Household economies
I have two major strikes against my ability to make money: First, the career path that called to me was writer and teacher. Neither has ever paid my way in life. The second is having chosen to homeschool my daughter. There are people who make a good income while homeschooling, but almost all of them…
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Brainy kid fun
I subscribe to a rather unusual newsletter for kids. It’s called the Neuroscience for Kids newsletter. I heard about it through some mailing list or other. It seemed to fit my little scientists well. (Did I tell you about her Halloween costume? H1N1, of course! She said, “I want to be something really scary!”) The…