If you go to my website (which has just been updated), http://web.onetel.net.uk/~jnjones , you will learn a little about my past activities and more recent ...
As a practicing and somewhat orthodox Buddhist, I feel I should say the views on Buddhism expressed by Mr. Jones are quite controversial. I am not a scholar...
Playground Economics by John Hood 12/2/04 The Foundation for Economic Education www.fee.org [John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation and...
Great Ideas of Homeschooling by Linda Schrock Taylor My son and I are currently studying a 50-lecture course from The Teaching Company [1] entitled The Great...
Spelling: The Alphabetic Code by Linda Schrock Taylor This article follows the previous column regarding the spelling rules. In this you will learn: the simple...
IMO parents should be responsible for educating their children if possible, or at least be involved in their education so they know what their children are...
Convert schools into open learning centers/communities. This way there are inhibitions to a person's education - some may disagree with no basic mandatory...
Remove the pledge from the flag, remove the flag from schools, and remove the schools from government. Http://rexcurry.net/pledgesoutherners.html Government...
Reading Practice That Educates by Linda Schrock Taylor Catchwords presently serve to manipulate teachers and administrators into believing that reading...
... BE: In my view everyone has the right to think they are right. So if you want an intelligent discussion you have give them that right. IMHO Bill...
... But you said initially that we are to "agree that everyone is right." That is not the same thing as someone having the "right to think they are right." I...
I forgot to add also that if, indeed, someone has a certain right to something, we do not have to "give them that right..." That particular right is already...
Speaking of clarity of thought (which I just violated!)... I meant a "right" to something inherent or "inalienable" is already in our possession... not...
California! Your Saxon Math Books Have Been Located! by Linda Schrock Taylor Parents in California – you must be horrified by the damage done to your ...
BOOK REVIEW Can schools be transformed to learning communities? that is the question that comes to mind in reading Ted Kolderie's "Creating the Capacity to...
Hey Bill this list is about separating school and state, not just changing the way the state looks. Bec Thomas Washington Natural Learning Association...
http://www.nytimes.com/ http://tinyurl.com/6yv5j How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading By AMY HARMON Published: December 20, 2004 BOICEVILLE,...
Homeschoolers Need Grandparents (And Grandparents Need Grandchildren) by Linda Schrock Taylor There must be thousands of families that would remove their...
It would be my pleasure and a dream come true to have that much a part in my (future)grandchildren's lives! One son (whom I did not raise), who works in ...
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... <snip> Trained in self-advocacy, students proudly recite the positive traits autism can confer, like the ability to develop uncanny expertise in an area of...
I've always found a "diagnosis" of AS rather interesting. It has frequently seemed to me a synonymn for "bright" or at least "interesting person." The more I...
... Me too! I mean *my* insanity and Katy says she enjoys me also. Most of the time. http://reason.com/0007/fe.js.curing.shtml Curing the Therapeutic State ...
... It's a darned good bet that those parents were state-educated themselves. It's a darned good bet that those parents learned early and quickly that it's...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20041217-084901-1674r.htm Education's decline revisited By Walter E. Williams A recent column discussed the sad and...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2959265 Latest exam tests old and new skills College Board believes its newest version will better...
... an ... This is a two part question, one part being a strawman. One need not "change" from a shy person to a social butterfly. That's an irrational extreme...
... Thanks for elaborating. It sounds to me like you were a bit more than simply "introverted". It sounds as if your distress in the presence of others was...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16412 A Christmas Story By Judy Kaplan Warner FrontPageMagazine.com | December 23, 2004 Here is a...