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Yoohoo, Maryland
Check it out. The Post reported on Thursday that Virginia has approved another Governors School: In the works for two years, the governor’s school received the go-ahead from the Virginia Board of...
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Thanks, New Yorker
So nice to see homeschoolers treated as, well, not-freaks by a respected publication. In this week’s New Yorker magazine Talk of the Town section, there’s a nice little piece about some young actors in...
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Truth Out: MCPS Hates Grade Skipping
Well the new school year is certainly shaping up to start with a bang, isn’t it? Comes a story that could have significant impact not only on the discussion of gifted education in the county, but...
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News: Child Enrolls in MCPS Middle School
While the statement “Child Enrolls in MCPS Middle School” shouldn’t be news, here in Montgomery County it is when the child in question is a qualified and gifted nine-year old. As blogged about a few...
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Why I Care About the Singam Case
Two weeks ago, when I learned about the unfolding drama surrounding Kumar Singam’s efforts to enroll his 9 year old daughter in an MCPS middle school (posts here and here), I wrote him an email: … I...
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A Rarely Heard Story
I’m pleased to direct you to a story that appears this week in our little bitty local freebie newspaper, The Takoma Voice. But the story is anything but little bitty. Sue Katz Miller, one very...
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MCPS Budget Squeeze Affects Homeschoolers Too
Homeschoolers in Montgomery County who choose to do their review with MCPS rather than under the auspices of a homeschooling “umbrella” organization (my choice when I homeschooled) are discovering that...
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Does Homeschooling Need More Regulation?
Sometimes you don’t know what’s happening in your own back yard, which is why I so appreciate hearing from people who read this blog. Case in point, a recent email I received from Kate Brunner/Crunchy...
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It’s Official: Homeschooling is Hot
No lesser authority than the New York Times Magazine has decreed it: Homeschooling is “in vogue.” Just check out the piece “School’s In,” about Mini-R.A.D, short for Revolutionary Artistic...
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Sir Ken Robinson on Homeschooling
Hello Readers! Thank you for the recent kind comments. So where have I been? Well, here. Between work whose demands are picking up (but not salary–everyone took a 10% pay cut in early December ),...
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