Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas

July 3, 2006

Positive view on homeschooling

Filed under: Homeschooling, Socialization — texased @ 11:21 am

Positive opinion on homeschooling from Buffalo.

Buffalo News - Home schooling offers many advantages:

In fact, one professor cited research that indicated home schooled children “are usually superior to their school-attending peers in social skills, social maturity, emotional stability, academic achievement, personal confidence, communication skills and other aspects.”

Homeschool math

Filed under: Education Finance, Homeschooling, common sense — texased @ 9:18 am

ABQjournal: Editorial: Let’s See Home, School Alliance:

The district deserves credit for coming up with a creative, progressive, innovative problem-solving approach. Home-schooling families should consider such an alliance. It sounds like a win-win situation.

I don’t know whether or not this is a great opportunity for homeschoolers. What confuses me about this is how the district is able provide services to new students (homeschoolers) and come out ahead in funding? I think someone needs to explain the math.

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