The Challenges Military Children Face in Public Schools
There are more than 1 million children in the U.S. whose parents are active duty military. Most of them attend public schools. Yet many districts don’t even know who these kids are or how to support them. On average, military children move six to nine times before they finish high school. And each move can mean navigating different schools in different states with different academic requirements. There is also an emotional toll- it isn’t uncommon for a military child to have a parent gone...
From: Education Week
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Home Schooling in America: ‘Unschoolers’ Put Children in Charge of Their Learning
Daniel Matica, a father of five in rural Worthington, Mass., is from Romania and the first in his family to go to college. He says his traditional schooling experience in Romania made him skeptical when his wife Erin Matica suggested that their children not attend school. Erin Matica explains unschooling as a “philosophy of home schooling where the kids are in charge of their own educations.” The children decide what, and how, they learn, while the Maticas find ways to support their...
From: Education Week
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Tet 2015 DaLat Home & School for the Blind
Blind Vietnamese Children's Foundation helps support schools in Vietnam like these. Happy Lunar New Year!
www.bvcf.net
From: bufanola
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How to Enroll: Connections Academy's Enrollment Process
Educating children at home with a Connections Academy supported school is a rewarding experience for many families. Before you become a part of a Connections Academy supported school, you'll have to complete the enrollment process. The enrollment process is very simple, but completing these steps may take some time, so we encourage you to start as early as you can.
For more information about online school enrollment and how to find a school in your state, check...
From: Connections Academy
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Texas Home School Coalition: Keys to Home Schooling Success, Part 2
Drawing from her own experience, Lyndsay discusses the do nots of home schooling, subjects to teach, scheduling, lesson plans, record keeping, support group participation, and dealing with discouragement.
From: Texas Home School Coalition
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Support Your Child's Skills Needed For Home, School & Life
FUNDA Multi-Activity Holiday Camps & Childcare - http://www.fundaplay.co.uk/camps
Do you have or know a child aged 4 to 14 years?
Would you agree with FUNDA that children today spend more time sitting and less time doing?
Get your child active, supporting your child's skills needed for school, home and life.
Allow your child to attend our FUNDA Mulit-Activity Holiday Camps & Childcare situated at venues across Lancashire in local areas:
Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn/ Darwen, Chorley...
From: FUNDA - Physical Education, Teacher CPD, Holiday Camps & Childcare Provider | FUNDAplay
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Joe Mazza on Home & School 2.0 - #140edu Conference 92Y NYC, 8/1/12
Home & School 2.0 - Envisioning a Connected Learning Community - (Presentation Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/psumazza/joemazza-home-school-20-140edu)
Barriers in the way of the home-school partnership are well documented over decades of research by Epstein, Henderson, Mapp and others. Depending on your school make-up, these barriers include fear, lack of transparency, culture, access, language challenges and mobility. When face to face communications make up the foundation of the...
From: Joe Mazza
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Children Are Like Sponges
K.I.S.S. Begins at Home
Kids In Successful Schools Begin at Home. Children mimic their parents. The quickest way to improve education is to change the role model parents present to their children as children learn their behavior, values and attitudes from their parents. Real education reform begins at home. Interest in STEM, school, college begins at home. Parents possess the power to make America globally competitive.
Uplift, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit Idea Incubator, seeks to predict...
From: Uplift, Inc.
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Education at home, not just in school
Education doesn't stop when your child leaves the school building. As parents, we have to work at home to support education. Alvean Lyons gave us the ABC's of partnering with the teacher already; here's the DEFs for supporting learning at home.
From: City of Hampton, VA
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Texas Home School Freedom and HSLDA: Different Paradigms
President Tim Lambert on why Texas Home School Coalition supports ESAs and Tim Tebow bills despite HSLDA's position. Lambert distinguishes home school regulation from rules to participate in optional programs, such as ESAs and UIL activities.
From: Texas Home School Coalition
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