Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

An oldish article from the Economist.   Lots of parents stress out about getting their kids into good preschools.  Turns out this may be the worst thing for their long-term education.  
Dimming: Disturbing Evidence of a Decline in Youngsters’ Brainpower
 Both sexes now do worse than before, but boys’ scores have fallen more, suggesting that a [...]

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The web site of New Jersey’s Courier News and Home News Tribune reports:

Kevin Fritz is one of two U.S. students to win a spot in February’s National Taiwan Science Education Center competition in Taipei after a May competition in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in Atlanta … Fritz and his sister, Kathleen, [...]

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Writing in the New York Times on Sunday, June 1, scientist Brian Greene says
… our educational system fails to teach science in a way that allows students to integrate it into their lives…It’s striking that science is still widely viewed as merely a subject one studies in the classroom or an isolated body of [...]

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National Public Radio’s David Kesterbaum offers a profile of Kristen Byrnes, a teenager who challenges orthodoxy about global warming.
And she has a quality scientists try to cultivate: she is skeptical. Has someone made a claim? She wants to see the data.
That’s what science is supposed to be about, right?
I don’t remember how old I [...]

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As Artemus Ward said, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.”

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