I'm always reading new books....I'm always educating myself on education! Maya Frost in the The New Global Student wants you to... Ship your 15 year old off to a Third World country for an entire year! I know, it sounds crazy. She and her husband essentially did this. They left a comfortable life here in [...]
How much does daycare or childcare cost where you live? I heard it's pushing $2,000 a month in Boston and New York....for the "acceptable" places anyway. That's be $100 per day. What if I told you that you could get high quality daycare from 9am-3pm for only $39 AND... ...your child would have an hour [...]
My thoughts? It was a decent video mostly, with numerous trenchant points made by an engaging speaker. But while this horse has admirably gotten himself up to the water - and he's clearly thirsty....he just can't get himself to drink. His diagnosis is spot on, but his remedy - if he even really offered one [...]
Obviously it's a book of principally regional appeal - about homeschooling on Long Island, New York. But much of what I've written is suitable for any parents on the cusp of *educating their own*. For the most part, I tried to summarize the basic requirements and answer the stock questions. And at the same time, [...]
Recently, on one of the forums I read, a new homeschooling mother waxed confused that the second, sequential math book she bought was front-loaded with "review" - with a whole lot of stuff they had just covered in the previous book. Veteran homeschoolers laughed because we've long since known that usually the beginning 15% of [...]
But perhaps the best part of the whole thing... Is how he can do it all himself, i.e. without bugging me for help. I mean, I'm swamped! If you want to buy LEGO Mindstorms for your child I would suggest waiting until Black Friday. Usually it's offered on sale for $100 cheaper than usual on [...]
While I've been casually *teaching* my whole life and directly instructing my own children for the past 5 years, it's now just about a year since I started teaching math privately for pay. I wouldn't say that I went into it with any preconceived notions but have nonetheless learned a whole lot and quite frankly, [...]
John, age 8.5, just hit his one year mark/anniversary since he started Khan Academy's math section. As you can see, he's completed 382 of the 432 skills on the website. There used to be about 300 skills, but Khan keeps adding more and more! In fact, John was most displeased the other day when he [...]
Last Monday I took my kids on a *homeschool cruise* around Manhattan. It was just the Circle Line one that caters to NYC tourists. Over 90 minutes we motored, slowly, down to the Statue of Liberty and back up the Hudson. For NY-ers, this was not such a big deal. But for homeschoolers it was. [...]
Today I just want to share an analogy that just popped into my head. About 500 years ago, brave souls started leaving the social stratification and intolerance of England for the freedom and opportunity in the New World. And look what happened! Almost instantly (within a couple hundred years) America became the wealthiest, strongest, most [...]
