Tagged: Education

Our experience with charter/home schooling in California

With the appointment of Betsy DeVoss to Education Secretary, lots of people are concerned that her prior commitment to charter schooling and her potential lack of experience helping public schools may hurt our education system and our kids. However, DeVoss could redirect funds to school choice and away...

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Homeschooling Material for 6th Grade

This is our first year doing homeschooling – we are starting our 6th grader, while our two younger children are still in the excellent Walnut Grove public school. We are totally nervous (n00bs), and since we are homeschooling under Connecting Waters charter home school, we...

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Is “Christian Education” an Oxymoron?

While some may be quick to dismiss such a concept as anti-intellectual or narrow, I think that only a poor implementation of a Christian interpretation of knowledge will end up in a religious, anti-reason, post-hoc reasoning. I suppose there are two possible errors that anyone designing...

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PODCAST: I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice

In chapters 4-6 of Hosea, a passage occurs that Jesus quotes at least twice in the New Testament: For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. ~ This has a lot to say to us religious people...

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National Free to Speak Campaign

Gateways to Better Education, a "national organization dedicated to helping public schools teach Judeo-Christian history, thought, and values" is sponsoring the National Free to Speak Campaign, which aims to "help schools become safe places for students to express their religious beliefs." The U.S. Department of...

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