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How To Care for Introverts
02-04-2012 Hits:106 Raising Children Mandy Marie
Most of us tend to identify ourselves as being either introverted, extroverted or a combination of both (melancholic). These are terms based on our personalities and are determined by how we interact with other people. Truly introverted children tend to withdraw from over-stimulation and for them to excel in society, they need to be approached in a different way than the majority extroverted/melancholic population. Here is a quick quiz to determine if your child might be introverted. This lovely...
Read moreBill 2: Open Letters to the Edmonton Journal
24-03-2012 Hits:150 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
These letters were written by concerned parents in regards to this column post written by Paula Simons of The Edmonton Journal. To the Editor: Re: Paula Simons, New Education Act needs reasoned debate, March 22, 2012 and Homeschoolers on Bill Two: Extremists don't speak for us, March 23, 2012. I disagree with much of what Paula Simons has written about this issue. There will always be one or two fanatics who make wildly inaccurate comments about such a hotly...
Read moreHomeschoolers Protest the Future of Education
24-03-2012 Hits:136 Education Mandy Marie
The Educational Act in Alberta has been undergoing a review as of late. Known as Bill 2, Section 16 of this bill is designed to mesh the Alberta Human Rights Act with the Alberta Education Act and while one might quickly presume that this is a good thing, taking a closer look at Bill 2 shows that it can be the beginning of rights taken out of context. Parents want the right to homeschool their children...
Read moreBringing soft totalitarianism into the classroom
10-03-2012 Hits:120 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
Raymond J. De Souza, National Post · Mar. 8, 2012 | Last Updated: Mar. 8, 2012 2:06 AM ET Who decides what children get taught when it comes to moral and religious questions? Parents or the state? These questions are being asked in Alberta, as a result of the provincial government's proposed new Education Act. The bill incorporates the Alberta Human Rights Act into the law governing schools and education, presumably giving aggrieved students, parents and teachers...
Read moreHelp Stop Law Requiring Homeschoolers to Teach “Tolerance!”
09-03-2012 Hits:96 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
Michael Smith --HSLDA President HSLDA of Canada is asking for our help! Our homeschooling brothers and sisters to the north (Alberta) are facing the possibility that they will be banned from teaching during schooltime that the Bible is true.The law would require that homeschoolers’ academic content contain politically correct views such as tolerance for controversial lifestyles. Paul Faris, president of HSLDA of Canada, says the law would subject homeschool families to the Alberta Human Rights Act which...
Read moreHomeschoolers clash with Obama’s school attendance proposal
20-02-2012 Hits:54 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
January 26, 2012By Home School Legal Defense Association In the State of the Union address President Obama called on all states to raise their school compulsory attendance age to 18, unnecessarily adding to bureaucratic requirements for homeschoolers. Homeschool advocates at the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are dedicated to protecting the educational relationship between parents and their children. Parents — not the federal government and certainly not the president — are the ones who should decide...
Read moreWould You Hire Your Own Kids? 7 Skills Schools Should Be Teaching Them
19-02-2012 Hits:182 Mandy's Blog Mandy Marie
This article was first published in December but, having only recently come across it, I felt the importance of sharing it with you. My biggest complaint about the place where I live in is the inability of the staff and employees to think outside the proverbial box. Whenever a problem arises, they seek out the solution they were taught to seek out. Considering other solutions never occurs to them because they've never been challenged to think otherwise....
Read moreHomeschool Leader Flees Swedish Persecution
18-02-2012 Hits:81 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
WRITTEN BY ALEX NEWMAN--The New American FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2012 09:38 As the government intensifies its persecution of homeschoolers in Sweden, the president of the Swedish Association for Home Education (ROHUS) has finally been forced into exile with his family in neighboring Finland. The battle for human rights and homeschooling in the Scandinavian kingdom, however, is far from over. The Swedish Parliament passed a draconian law in 2010 purporting to ban homeschooling, all school curriculums except the Swedish...
Read more10-Year-Old Girl Discovers New Molecule In Science Class
16-02-2012 Hits:114 Gifted & Talented Students Mandy Marie
Clara Lazen is not your typical fifth-grader. The Kansas City, Missouri student was tackling an assignment in science class manipulating molecular models when she made an accidental scientific breakthrough. Armed with some basic instruction on the formation and structure of molecules, Clara ended up combining a mixture of oxygen, hydrogen and carbon atoms to create a molecule her chemistry teacher, Kenneth Boehr, had never seen before. After the exercise, Clara wanted to know if the molecule...
Read moreCollege Degree = -Hour Job
12-02-2012 Hits:172 Education Mandy Marie
There’s no question that this is a tough time for job seekers, but Millennial college graduates are also grappling with a huge disconnect between what they are taught in school — degrees correlate with salaried positions — and how those jobs just simply aren’t around anymore. Even with adjusted, or lowered, expectations, millions of Millennial college graduates find their only opportunities are for positions where an hour is aiming high, benefits are non-existent, and...
Read moreAre You Ready for the World Education Games?
11-02-2012 Hits:140 Events, Contests & Competitions Mandy Marie
Since the 1st of February, students from around the world have been signing up (be it through their teachers or on their own) for the World Education Games. This International competition receives registrations from around the world. With prizes and bragging rights at stake, the entrants are eagerly awaiting for the games to begin March 6. This year, the series of three online competitions will be hosted by Sydney, Australia. Last year, over 55 000 schools...
Read moreWhy Go to College at All?
09-02-2012 Hits:181 Mandy's Blog Mandy Marie
Is college worth it? We are brought up with the assumption that without college, we are doomed to a future of menial jobs or unemployment. This piece of paper called a diploma is society's way of deciding over those who will succeed versus those who will fail. While we are lead to believe that this education is what leads us to be "prepared for the real world," nothing could be further from the truth. Information and...
Read moreFree College Course: The Meaning & History of the Constitution
09-02-2012 Hits:125 Education Mandy Marie
Course begins February 20, 2012 “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution” is a 10-week online course presented by Hillsdale College. An expanded format from the “Introduction to the Constitution” lecture series with Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, Constitution 101 follows closely the one-semester course required of all Hillsdale College undergraduate students. In this course, you can: Watch lectures from the same Hillsdale faculty who teach on campus; Study the same readings taught in the College course; Submit...
Read moreVoices in Education: Hagara Emira
08-02-2012 Hits:110 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
Clarksburg mother says ‘Home schooling is about letting them experience life in its true form’ by Peggy McEwan, Staff Writer Hagar Emira home schools her two children, ages eight and four. She was interviewed in her Clarksburg home Jan. 31, 2012. You have Clarksburg listed as your hometown, did you grow up here? No, I was born in Egypt and grew up outside of Boston. Did you teach before home schooling? I taught first grade for two years and then English,...
Read more‘Tebow’ bill to let home-schoolers play high school sports passes Va. House
08-02-2012 Hits:105 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
By Anita Kumar The House of Delegates voted 59 to 39 Wednesday in favor of a bill that would allow Virginia’s tens of thousands of home-schooled students to play sports at their local high schools. Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow (Charles Krupa - AP) The “Tebow bill” — named for Tim Tebow, the starting Denver Broncos quarterback who was home-schooled in Florida but was allowed to play football at his local high school — will now be sent...
Read moreFREE Online Astronomy Class Starts Today!
08-02-2012 Hits:295 Education Mandy Marie
If you've always wanted to take an astronomy class, here is your chance! Every Wednesday, from February 8 to May 9, you can join the class taught by Planetary Society's Bruce Betts. Betts is leading the free class at California State University Dominguez Hills on DHTV from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time. There is no registration and classes are free. Viewers will be encouraged to interact with Betts and his guests, as well as ask...
Read moreWhy Go to College at All?
02-02-2012 Hits:134 Education Mandy Marie
February 2, 2012, 6:00 AM By HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO Is college worth it? High school seniors anxiously awaiting admissions decisions might find that question bizarre, but recently some strenuous arguments have been leveled against the value of a college degree. For more insight into those arguments, we turned to Dale J. Stephens, 20, the founder of UnCollege, which urges students to “hack their education” by finding their own pathways to success. Mr. Stephens, 20, is a Thiel fellow who spent...
Read moreWhy Urban, Educated Parents are Turning to DIY Education
01-02-2012 Hits:105 Education Anna Krupnik-Boudreau
They raise chickens. They grow vegetables. They knit. Now a new generation of urban parents is even teaching their own kids. NewsweekJan 30, 2012 12:00 AM EST In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in...
Read moreGroundhog Day Links and Resources
26-01-2012 Hits:58 Announcements Mandy Marie
With Groundhog Day less than a week away, get you children in the spirit of this silly holiday by learning its history, trying some science activities and games, such as learning about shadows, playing online games and coloring some awesome coloring pages. There are over 100 links and resources for kids of all ages, including almost 40 coloring pages. Do you thing the groundhog will see his shadow this year?
Read moreWhy Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?
22-01-2012 Hits:64 Education Mandy Marie
December 26, 2011 - by Jonathan Wai Consider this. Ever since you were a kid, can you remember taking a standardized test that didn’t have a math or verbal section? I can’t. Pretty much all of them have math, science, English, reading, and maybe writing sections. Even when you got to high school, and you took the SAT or ACT, there were verbal, math, and science sections. So what’s missing? For many students, everything is great. Our schools are...
Read moreAlison Gopnik: On what’s wrong with the way we teach, and how a year out of university changed her son’s life
19-01-2012 Hits:123 Homeschooling Mandy Marie
Source: by Kate Fillion @ MacLeans.ca Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. A prolific researcher and author who specializes in cognitive development, her most recent book is The Philosophical Baby: What children’s minds tell us about love, truth and the meaning of life. Q: What’s the traditional approach to learning at a university, and how does it square with what experts know about how...
Read moreGovernment Leader Advocates for Homeschool Students to Be Taken From Parents
19-01-2012 Hits:52 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
Holly Craw, Phoenix Homeschooling Examiner Do parents have a right to homeschool their children? Not if they live in Sweden according to Lotta Edholm, a leader of the liberal party of Sweden. In a blog article on January 16, she upholds the value of compulsory education in the public schools, and seems to view those using different approaches as deliberately keeping their children "away from school". Homeschooling is not considered actual education and is keeping children...
Read moreSensory Processing Disorder: ‘New’ Disorder Gives Struggling Parents Hope
14-01-2012 Hits:136 Disabilities Mandy Marie
Having grown up with an auditory processing disorder, I can understand how frustrating these conditions can be for both the parent and child. My teachers assumed I had a speech impediment and never paid attention. They chalked it up to the fact we didn't speak French at home (I grew up in the province of Quebec) whereas I felt that everyone had to repeat what they said two or three times before I could comprehend....
Read more10 Celebrity Parents Who Chose Homeschooling Instead of Public School
13-01-2012 Hits:206 Homeschool News Mandy Marie
From Parentablesby Alexandra Martinez on 01.13.12 in Family Matters Celebrity parents face a unique set of challenges with their children's education -- with erratic work schedules, frequent travel, and paparazzi on every corner, it's no wonder many actors, writers, and entrepreneurs choose to keep their children out of a traditional school. But the practical concerns aren't the only reason that famous families turn to homeschooling and private tutors: Many of them also prefer the individual attention, customized...
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