Democratic schools and "drop-outs"
I remember talking about democratic schools and free schools with someone years ago and they told me that those types of schools were a failure - end of conversation. Failure? To whom? To a section of our population a traditional ...

Multiplication Facts Review
I preface everything with too much text so scroll down and click on the hyperlinks to check out some cool multiplication review sites. Recently, over on the homeschool discussion group, a mom shared that she had discovered why her son ...

Eleven Years Ago
It wasn't until a recent move that I found one of our learning journals from about eleven years ago - a three ring binder that contains some of the activities my now seventeen year old son did when he was ...

The Freedom to Adapt
I saw that someone had mentioned Alvin Toffler in a comment right here on this site. I commented something about how I liked his views on education reform and had miswritten the title of the article I had read. It ...

Eighteen Years!!
As of today, I have been married for eighteen years! I mean, "my hubby and I have been married for eighteen years today." Funny how I forgot about him just then. I know what you are thinking, "What are you ...

A few free online educational resources
Here are some sites that offer online courses for free: MIT Open Courseware Any subject you can imagine with lecture notes, videos... Free Education Online A list of online courses. National Repository of Online Courses List of AP, High School, ...