Homeschool and Education News Beat

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Sonora High Students Silenced By 'Every 15 Minutes' Program

My Mother Lode (CA)

by Bill Johnson

May 08, 2008

Sonora, CA -- Sonora High School juniors and seniors were silenced and mesmerized by the Every 15 Minutes program this morning.

At 8:30 emergency vehicles descended on the Wildcat campus responding to a mock vehicular accident caused by a drunk driver. One student was arrested for driving under the influence, two were hospitalized and one was killed. The dramatic presentation concluded...

Texas demands faith in evolution

World Net Daily

May 01, 2008

The state of Texas has decided that a graduate school with a faculty sporting Ph.Ds from UCLA, Penn State, the University of Montana, Colorado State, etc. isn't qualified to grant master's degrees.

Among the 13 faculty members listed by the ICRGS, 10 have earned Ph.Ds in their fields of expertise, another is a doctor of veterinary medicine and two more have doctorates in education.

Schoolteacher in heat? Woman arrested thrice

World Net Daily (FL)

April 29, 2008

A former Florida teacher already arrested twice for allegedly having sex with two of her students has reportedly scored a hat trick, after police say she again had sex with a previous victim.

Stephanie Ragusa, 29, of Tampa was taken into custody yesterday shortly after Hillsborough County detectives saw her exiting the home of the 16-year old boy. It's Ragusa's third arrest since last month on similar sex charges.

Homeschooling is an alternative more and more parents are getting involved with

Bangkok Post

by Achara Ashayagachat

April 28, 2008

Anew school semester will start in the next two weeks and children will don their school uniforms and head off to their schools.

However, one group of children will just stay at home, wear their casual clothes and study with their parents under the homeschool programme. Despite a two-decade long presence in Thailand, the alternative way of being educated at home, known as homeschooling, remains unpopular with the public and has failed to get support from state educational bodies.

Study Shows Majority of Americans Doubt Quality of Public School Education

ASSIST News Service

by Jeremy Reynalds

April 26, 2008

Results from a recently released study show the vast majority of Americans have significant doubts about the quality of a public school education, and believe other options generally are better for children.

According to a news release from Ellison Research, the study asked Americans to rate the overall quality of education students get from public schools, home schooling, charter schools, and three types of private schools: non-religious, Catholic, and Christian (non-Catholic), and then to decide which option is the best for students in a number of different ways.

Testing Bill Defeated

HSLDA (TN)

April 25, 2008

After weeks of intense grassroots lobbying by energized homeschooling families, on March 19, 2008, the Special Initiatives Subcommittee of the Tennessee House Education Committee voted to kill a testing bill threatening home educators.

House Bill 2795 would have subjected non-public school students, including homeschool students, to additional state testing. It would have required them to take subject matter tests based upon state-approved textbooks. It would also have required them to pass the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests before receiving a high school diploma.

Education survey reveals 'head-scratching' results

One News Now

by Allie Martin

April 24, 2008

A new survey on education reveals some surprising results when it comes to public versus private education.

On a five-point scale, the average rating a public school education received was 3.0. Next came home schooling with an average rating of 3.14, and then charter schools with an average rating of 3.41. Private Christian schools received an average rating of 3.69...

Home-schooled Evanston teen accepted by Harvard, Yale, more

Chicago Tribune

by Bonnie Miller Rubin

April 17, 2008

In what has been called the most competitive year ever for college admissions, Chelsea Link defied the odds to get accepted into Yale. Then Harvard.

Then came the fat envelopes from Princeton, Columbia, University of Chicago, Stanford and Northwestern University. Making that feat still more extraordinary, Link has been home-schooled since age 5. Still, many admissions officials say they are becoming more at ease with applicants who took alternative paths, if for no other reason than it's a booming market.

Mimi Rothschild: Taking over homeschooling?

Hem Editor's Blog

by Helen Hegener

April 14, 2008

Mimi Rothschild contacted our advertising manager last week "seeking to run a large ad campaign in Home Education Magazine."

Mimi's latest website is a shrill grandstanding howl about the California legal situation which has been picked up by the Reuters news agency. A much more reasoned response can be found at websites for the Homeschool Association of California and the California Homeschool Network.

Assemblywoman Reintroduces Law to Ban Spanking

Christian Newswire (CA)

by Karen England

April 09, 2008

Assemblywoman Sally Lieber has introduced a bill that will effectively ban spanking in California. Identical to last year's highly publicized AB 755, this new AB 2943 will make it a crime to spank a child.

According to AB 2943, a parent who spanks their child would be placed on probation for a minimum of 4 years, and would be forced to attend a "nonviolent parental education class" and the child would receive a criminal court protective order "protecting the victim from further acts of violence or threats" and "residence exclusion or stay-away conditions."

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