Category: Educating Children
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Sheffield Secondary School Places Crisis Appeals Chaos, Why You Need a Solicitor / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Parents of Sheffield's children will have received the results of their secondary school applications this week and many will be finding that they have been denied a place at their choice of school, in many instances even for catchment area schools due to the blanket response of the schools being over-subscribed. However, what this hides is the underlying truth of why so many children are being denied places at schools of choice which as consequences of severe cuts in school budgets that continues each year. Many parents will now be considering going down appeals route which this article will seek to illuminate.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Children Save Yourself From State Education, Get Expelled! / Politics / Educating Children
By: Jeff_Berwick
Justin O’Connell writes: Hi Kids,
Do you find yourself locked down at your local dangerous public school between the hours of 7am and 3pm five days a week (six if you have Saturday school) for nine months a year (ten if you have Summer school)? Do you find it a waste of time? Well, there’s no need to worry anymore, because The Dollar Vigilante is here to give you the lowdown on how to handle your plight. Be sure to share this information with a friend in the same situation!
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Public Schools Are Black Holes, Don't Drop Your Child into One / Politics / Educating Children
By: LewRockwell
Butler Shaffer writes: Never let school interfere with your education.~ Mark Twain
There is an old joke about how knowledge accumulates in universities: students enter college, knowing everything, and graduate knowing nothing. In this way does knowledge continue to grow within universities. My years of experience in what is referred to as "higher education" inform me that there is more than sophomoric humor in this description.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Public Schools - Crooked Teachers and Lying Principals / Politics / Educating Children
By: LewRockwell
Walter E. Williams writes: Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history." More than three-quarters of the 56 Atlanta schools investigated had cheated on the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, sometimes called the national report card.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sheffield Primary, Secondary, Junior School Place Applying Admissions Chaos 2013 / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's parents will have been busy this past month in making postal and online applications for 2013-14 secondary school places, and similarly soon to be followed by applications for primary and junior school places for which there are strict deadlines to adhere to. The minimum expectations of all parents is for a fair and level playing field in the process of applying for school places for their children.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sheffield School Pupils Admissions Fails to Provide a Level Playing Field / Local / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's parents will have been busy this past month in making postal and online applications for secondary schools, and similarly soon to be followed by applications for nursery and junior school places. The minimum expectations of all parents is for a fair and level playing field in the process of applying for school places for their children.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Homeschooling, The Most Radical Social Movement in America, Terrifies the Establishment / Politics / Educating Children
By: Gary_North
I have just read the best article in National Review that I can remember in the last 40 years. Of course, this is not saying a great deal, because I stopped reading National Review about 40 years ago. I used to write for it occasionally. My introduction to the magazine was in the fall of 1959, when I was a freshman at Pomona College. I read it faithfully for about five years, and intermittently until the early 1970s. After that, my interests shifted.
Saturday, September 08, 2012
State Schools Are an Inevitable Source of Ethnic Conflict / Politics / Educating Children
By: MISES
Mike Reid writes: The great antifascist scholar Ludwig von Mises warned that government schools are an inevitable source of ethnic conflict, because dominant nationalities can use them to indoctrinate children from other cultures, pulling them away from their parents and communities.[1] In Canada, this was explicitly the aim of the Indian residential schools, which sought to "kill the Indian in the child."[2]
Friday, October 15, 2010
A Valuable Lesson: Education Must Pay Off for US / Politics / Educating Children
By: Barry_Elias
The United States spends more money per student than any country in the world: roughly $35,000 total for primary, secondary and tertiary education.
In 2006, the United States was ranked 32nd and 22nd in math and science, respectively, out of 52 countries. This was based on testing by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) at the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD).
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Friday, May 02, 2008
How to Teach Your Children Financial Independence / Personal_Finance / Educating Children
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes; My daughter is only 10 months old, but my wife and I are already anticipating the day she comes asking us for money to buy the latest designer handbag. Disha is making a list of her favorite stores. Me? I'm envisioning how I'll use the request as a way to talk about the importance of money and sound spending habits.
Last time I checked, very few elementary schools — or even high schools, for that matter — were teaching kids anything about finance. And that's a real shame.
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