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Homeschoolers Implement Text-to-Speech

Technology Marketing Corp.

by David Sims

April 28, 2005

One of the nation's leading cyberschool providers will soon be implementing a new text-to-speech component in which text can be highlighted by the student and the computer will audibly read the text back to the student.

Homeschooling, the oldest form of schooling in American history, is a dynamic, mushrooming multimillion dollar industry in the United States today, currently serving approximately 2 million students. It relies on the Internet more than traditional schooling and, according to advocates, is more adaptable to the latest technology than cash-strapped and cautious school boards.

5-Year-Old Handcuffed By Florida Police On Camera

NBC10

April 23, 2005

Girl Was Allegedly Misbehaving

A 5-year-old girl was handcuffed by police after she tore papers off a bulletin board and punched an assistant principal in kindergarten class, according to a video released by a lawyer for the child's mother.

Families and educational freedom: the case for home-schooling

Online Opinion (Australia)

by Julie Novak

April 21, 2005

Julie Novak argues the case for home-schooling. What do American Presidents George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt, Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell, Margaret Mead, and writer Agatha Christie have in common?

These famous luminaries in their respective fields of endeavour were the beneficiaries of home-schooling through their childhood years. The concept of home-schooling seems to evoke a range of negative stereotypes, including a negative picture of parents with either extremist religious beliefs, or with no real commitment to their children's education, who lock their offspring away and place them at educational, social and perhaps even physical risk.

Opinion: Home Schooling not a good idea for most

The Illinois Leader

by Scott Thomas

April 20, 2005

There are many keys that open Pandora's Box. I just never know when I'm going to stumble on to one of them. My radio listening audience, however, never fails to let me know when I've done so.

In the last week, I have discovered that Home Schooling is one such key, especially if, as I do, you generally oppose the practice of Home Schooling. I guess, as a true blue (or is that true red) conservative, I'm supposed to be a big supporter or home schooling. It's one of those bedrock conservative issues, like the right to carry guns and lower taxes. But, I'm not in the home school camp.

Police in Ariz. Seek Monkey for SWAT Team

Comcast

April 18, 2005

The Mesa Police Department is looking to add some primal instinct to its SWAT team. And to do that, it's looking to a monkey.

"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. "It would change the way we do business." The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations. The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.

Homeschooling just makes cents

Texas Tech University Daily News

by Will Davis

April 15, 2005

Look around your classroom and try to spot the nearest homeschooler. If you instinctively focus on the weirdo sitting in the front row, you're probably looking in the wrong direction.

Although it is difficult to believe, homeschooling was banned, except in special cases, in all 50 states as late as 1983. Because of this, you and I represent the first generation truly affected by the modern homeschooling movement. As such, the children who were part of this initial movement now compete with us both in the classroom and in the work force. And more often than not, they have the upper hand in both arenas.

Drivers.com: High gas prices - it's personal

Drivers

by PDE Publications Inc.

April 14, 2005

High gasoline prices have been a fact of life in Europe for decades, but auto-dependent North Americans have had soft easy times. Now the other shoe is falling, and it's personal.

Cheap gas prices lured us into gas-guzzling hummers, fuel hungry SUVs and bigger, more powerful family cars. Some can afford this, and higher gas prices will probably not affect them much, but most of us will feel the crunch, and if it keeps up, it will affect our lifestyles. It may even seriously damage the national economy.

Miracles Still Happen!

News With Views

by Charlotte Iserbyt

April 9, 2005

Sit down, folks! What you are going to hear is going to astound you. At least it did me. This is the only really good news we have ever had regarding the protection of parental and pupil rights.

This new information will strike at the heart of many destructive values- changing federal education programs, but especially at the heart of President Bush's plans to require mandatory mental health screening of our children in the government schools. (New Freedom Commission on Mental Health).

The Seattle Times: Local News: Many in U.S. to need passport

The Seattle Times (WA)

by Lornet Turnbull

April 6, 2005

If you travel to the Caribbean, Mexico or even Canada, the federal government soon will require that you have a valid passport to get back home. For the first time, Canadian's will need a passport to travel south.

Aimed at further reinforcing the U.S. perimeter against terrorist threats, the new rules for air, land and sea travel, announced yesterday by the departments of State and Homeland Security, will be phased in over two years between December 2005 and December 2007. The impact of these changes could be especially strong in the Pacific Northwest, just south of Canada's British Columbia, site of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

"I'd know a false confession if I saw one": A comparative study of college students and police investigators

works.bepress.com

by Saul M. Kassin, et al.

April 1, 2005

College students and police investigators watched or listened to ten prison inmates confessing to crimes. Half the confessions were true accounts; half were false-concocted for the study.

Consistent with much recent research, students were generally more accurate than police, and accuracy rates were higher among those presented with audiotaped than videotaped confessions. In addition, investigators were significantly more confident in their judgments and also prone to judge confessors guilty. To determine if police accuracy would increase if this guilty response bias were neutralized, participants in a second experiment were specifically informed that half the confessions were true and half were false. This manipulation eliminated the investigator response bias, but it did not increase accuracy or lower confidence. These findings are discussed for what they imply about the post-interrogation risks to innocent suspects who confess.

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