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Items in this update:
o FROM THE EDITOR: Too successful to ignore
o Homeschooling grows in popularity and success
o SepCon2001
o Pennsylvania tax credits filling up fast
o A tale of Senate obstructionism
o Teaching the bottom line
o Schoolhouse crock
o What do tests tell us?
Dear Fellow School Reformers:
Could that be the sweet smell of success?
What I'm referring to is the Time magazine cover story on homeschooling
(see News Reports below). That Time, a magazine not known for questioning
state dominance of society, has seen fit to highlight the most anti-statist
of education movements is a clear sign that homeschooling has achieved a
high profile.
True, the article sniffs its way through a few questions about whether
kids
educated by their families are really good citizens. It also suggests that
educational woes could be solved if homeschoolers channeled their energy
into reforming public schools. But in doing so, Time admits the failures
of
government schools and the unquestionable achievements of the
homeschooling
movement.
Now that's success indeed.
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==> News Reports <==
Homeschooling's high profile
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Homeschooling is increasingly popular as students excel in
the personalized environment -- averaging 80 points higher on SAT
and outperforming government school students by nearly every measure.
Government schools are feeling the pressure. (08/21/01)
http://www.time.com/time/covers/11010
10827/cover.html
Pennsylvania tax credits filling up fast
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge signed a $20 million tuition
tax credit for corporate donations to private scholarship organizations
into law, and Pennsylvania businesses responded by donating
39% of that amount on the first day, demonstrating strong business
community support for school choice. (08/17/01)
http://childrenfirstamerica.org/avfc/081
701.html
For more News Reports see:
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urces/bycategory/news/
==> Events <==
SepCon2001
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November 16, 2001
The Annual Conference of the Alliance for the Separation of
School & State will be held Nov 16-18, 2001 in Arlington, Va. at the
Hilton DoubleTree Hotel. Registration information and featured
guests and presentations available on website.
http://www.sepschool.org/sepcon.html
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==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
A tale of Senate obstructionism
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by Michelle Malkin
President Bush's nominee for assistant secretary of Education
for the Office of Civil Rights supports school choice scholarship programs
for poor black kids cheated by rotten public schools. He calls it the
great "civil rights issue" of our time. (08/15/01)
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/20
01/august/mm_reynolds.htm
Teaching the bottom line
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by Sam MacDonald
Now that the for-profit Edison Project is teaching 57,000
students in schools across the country, it's running short of
teachers. That's OK -- The company plans to open its own system of
one-year teachers' colleges.
(08/17/01)
http://www.reason.com/hod/sm08170
1.html
Schoolhouse crock
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by Lisa Snell
Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything.
(08/22/01)
http://www.reason.com/0108/fe.ls.sch
oolhouse.html
What do tests tell us?
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by Bill Evers
"One thing standardized tests can tell us is whether the
grades that teachers give their students actually indicate how much the
students know." (08/15/01)
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaff
airs/we/current/evers_0801.html
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