Schooling Dangerously: A review of Joseph Murphy’s Homeschooling in America and Quinn Cummings’ The Year of Learning Dangerously by Mary McConnell. Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year—the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools—and between 6 and 12 percent of all […]
Science in Focus: What I Wish I’d Known
Science in Focus: What I Wish I had Known — by John Wilson. The first three installments of this Science in Focus series helps me see that all too often, our God is too small. The Creator of the universe always has more tricks up his sleeve. At the same time, I am reminded that […]
The Case for Educational Pluralism
The Case for Educational Pluralism: Alternatives to the state-funded educational monopolyby Ashley Rogers Berner–Recent American educational innovation—charter schools, vouchers, cyber-education, Teach for America—are encouraging educational diversity, but they can only go so far. Lasting, structural change requires reframing “public education” to mean publicly funded or publicly supported, not exclusively publicly delivered, education. This in turn […]
