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Social engineering.. through education

Posted by Heather Laurie in Thursday, June 17th 2010   
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Do you have fond memories of your BFF (best friend forever)? Can you believe that your children may be discouraged from making those strong bonds? Here is an article that set my teeth on edge! The End of the Best Friend? You Must be Kidding One reason this irks me is as a mom of [...]

The Nationalization of Education is well under way…

Posted by Heather Laurie in Wednesday, March 10th 2010   
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States have the right to determine the education of it’s youth. There was not even a Federal Department of Education until Jimmy Carter in 1979 gave that little gem to us. Now the government is moving ahead with plans to make a national core standard. Translation Federalized education.
President Barack Obama told the nation’s governors last [...]

Who controls the content of textbooks?

Posted by Heather Laurie in Sunday, January 24th 2010   
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It’s that time again. The time for Texas textbook review committee to consider the  textbook trends for the most of the industry. What? You haven’t heard about this. I hadn’t either until my husband had to return to college. The text books were outrageously priced. Once he had the older version of a text and [...]

Gifted student being held back

Posted by Heather Laurie in Wednesday, October 28th 2009   
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Washington Post Gifted Student Is Being Held Back By Graduation Rules
Interesting this is a gifted student that wants to go to public school after a homeschooling stint. He is not desiring more education, he wishes for the prom etc. The school is not accepting the college, and state high school testing credits.
I do hope that [...]

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness week

Posted by Heather Laurie in Thursday, September 17th 2009   
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This week was National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness week. So what is an invisible illness? These are conditions in which you can’t just look at the person and tell there is a medical problem. Did you know that 1 in 2 people have a chronic illness. Everything from migraines to arthritis to lupus to cancer [...]

Grades are in…for public schools

Posted by Heather Laurie in Friday, July 24th 2009   
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Report card time. The state’s grades on how they are handling their special needs education is in.
Special Needs Scorecard
There use to be a ranked grading system. It looks like that is no longer how they grade the schools. Hmm… Changing the system so that no single state feels bad from being the on the bottom?

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