Blogs about: This Is School Mr Potter Not The Real World
What School Movies Have Affected Your Life?
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: Which ones are personally most memorable, for good or ill or just as powerful story-telling? After p … more →
"Most Inappropriate Halloween Costumes" Slide Show
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: (Strong warning to those offended by, well, things clearly meant to offend. Like listening to Beck o … more →
Whose Rights Ring Wronger at School?
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: Public school? Check. In the United States of America? Check (well, it’s Tennessee, and the st … more →
JJ Reading Dan Brown's New Book
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: . . .and glad it isn’t BANNED! At the same time, I quite appreciate Killing the Buddha’s … more →
Learning to Play, Learning From Play
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: The whole New York Times Sunday magazine today is about various individual “identity” is … more →
Science Fiction -- and Anti-science Fiction?
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: Check out the Google graphic today, did you know this was H.G. Wells’ birthday? And former Mis … more →
Socialist Catholic Church Sees Home Education as Dangerous Competitor?
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: It starts out one way: “We are engaged in the defense of hearth, home, and the families entrus … more →
No Such Thing as a Free Lurch. . .
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: . . .into America’s health care cafeteria. You may not be able to write a check and your insur … more →
Open Back-to-School Thread: Let's Have Show and Tell
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Okay, I know a bunch of Thinking Parents who sent kids including unschooled daughters (looking at Na … more →
Back to School: First Church-State Skirmish Already?
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Do you know the Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta? He is a highly evolved thinker and human being imo. … more →
Mad for the Women Behind the Men of Mad Men!
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Favorite Daughter and I love everything about this show. At the end of WSJ’s feature on the wo … more →
Power of Story Behind Homeschool Regulation Psychology?
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JJ wrote 5 months ago: Novelist Jodi Picoult profiled in today’s NYT Magazine: . . .the enda[n]gered or ruined child … more →
Fun and Freeing Homeschool Interviews for Families
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JJ wrote 6 months ago: Way to go, Deb! Smart and funny do go together and this is the latest evidence. If you’re a Th … more →
Guess Who Told College Grads Real World Beats Google and YouTube?
JJ wrote 6 months ago: “Turn off your computer,” he told the Class of 2009. “You’re actually going to have to turn off your … more →
One for Lynn at BoreMe, Who Loves This Stuff
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JJ wrote 6 months ago: Wonder if this was all secretly part of the school’s abstinence program — rig elevators … more →
It's the Humanity, Stupid. . .
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JJ wrote 6 months ago: Apparently the Church is no better at bureaucratic control and governance of real life than the Stat … more →
To Boldly Go Where Favorite Daughter the Geek Goes
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JJ wrote 6 months ago: “Sci-fi geekology” was never even a gleam in my educational eye when we first put up our … more →
Happy Birthday, Strunk & White
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JJ wrote 7 months ago: Cue the music and release the balloons for the half-century celebration of E. B. White’s revis … more →
Holistic Approach Overrated in College Admission
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JJ wrote 7 months ago: Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog April 16, 2009 by Eric Hoover Winston-Salem, N.C. — Many adm … more →
