Posts Tagged ‘Indiana’
Public Education Permeated By a Cheating Culture
By Linda Dobson Everybody's doing it, or so it seems when report after report stack up in the news. On August 6, 2010, Parent at the Helm reported on "Atlanta Suspects 109 Teachers of Testing Cheating." (We subsequently learned that the city spent $100,000 of taxpayers' money to investigate.) Indiana and Texas have public problems [...]
School Layoff Announcements Keep Rolling In: VA, NYC, NJ, IN
Let me start by saying I dislike being the bearer of bad news, but I also don’t subscribe to the ostrich theory of burying one’s head in the sand when one doesn’t like what’s going on. Like my fellow human beings, I like to be right. But being right about this snowball growing ever larger as it builds up steam is about as unpleasant as [...]
Clearing the Deck Jan. 15 2010
News of value to Parents at the Helm is endless. Unfortunately, hours in the day are not. So, from time to time, Parent at the Helm will provide a “Clearing the Deck” post, a summary of great items that shouldn't go unnoticed. HOMESCHOOLING SOARS IN FLORIDA I referred briefly to a mention of this story in a brief post, but here’s the [...]
Moms’ pleas highlight home-school dilemma
Out of Indiana, for your perusal, the story of not one but two moms whose children are no longer homeschooling because of a "circle" of the law that fails to outline what "education" means.
