A 1997 study, entitled “Strengths of Their Own: Home Schoolers Across America” homeschoolers, on the average were found to out-perform public school students by 30 to 37 percentile points in all subjects.
In grades K-12, both white and minority students scored, on the average, in the 87th percentile. In math, whites scored in the 82nd percentile [...]

I first became aware of the concept of an intentional dumbing down of Americans through the public school system when I read the works of John Taylor Gatto and only recently was introduced to Charlotte Iserbyt’s book on the same topic.
Iserbyt knows what she is talking about. She served as Senior Policy Advisor in the [...]

I would have loved to have been at the ceremony in 1991 when John Taylor Gatto received the New York State Teacher of the Year award. Here is a synopsis of his acceptance speech. I’m sure those at the ceremony were a little surprised by what he had to say.
“These are the things I teach, [...]

“Often the people that have the greatest impact on the world are the lopsided ones.”
Those words I heard many years ago at a homeschool convention have helped to shape my opinions about education.
According to author, Madeleine L’Engle, “These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for [...]

Are you feeling pretty smart? Take a look back to 1895…
Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that  they only had an eighth-grade education? Well, check this out Exam PDF Version
Could any of us have passed the eighth grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 Salina, Kansas, USA. It was [...]