Nothing could be more simple . . . Difficult, because to trust children we first must learn to trust ourselves. . . I think they have some picture of us circling round the kitchen table with schoolbooks.
Education hits the news everyday.
Clinton's plan for the standardized testing of all schoolchildren has been shelved for a year. California State School Superintendent Delaine Eastin is pushing the first set of school standards the state has ever had, while simultaneously advocating compulsory preschool. Reading aloud is one of our family's main homeschooling activities. He was fascinated until my husband plugged in his new Riven game as I read the second to last paragraph. She's also gobbling up the American Girls Addy books she found in the library.