That rather colorful description comes from Boston University sociologist Peter Berger, who is working to challenge those stereotypes in a new study. At this point in my life, I’m very grateful for his work seeing how I am an evangelical living in "Tobacco Road" who...
Casey Luskin has a nice 13 minute interview with Rebecca W. Keller, founder of Gravitas Publications, which publish a series of science books for homeschoolers called Real Science 4 Kids. By ‘framework-agnostic’, I mean that she presents science and scientific methods withOUT committing to any...
From FreeGonazlez.com: Now, as a world class scientist, Dr. Gonzalez is facing persecution from an unexpected source – his employer, Iowa State University. His academic track record exceeds the tenure requirements of his department, and he exceeds other tenured ISU astronomers in key measures of...
One of the recent K-LOVE Closer Look podcasts was really informative, discussing the growing resurgence of single-gender education – that is, classes and schools for either all boys or all girls. Brain development and psychological development studies show that boys and girls develop in different...
Here are some great lists of free online documentaries. I’m sure there are more. ABC Documentaries Best Online Documentaries (505 videos) Documentaries (Noname Blog) Documenary-film.net (75 videos) Educated Earth (55 videos) Frontline (PBS)
Many people who are unfamiliar with homeschooling picture it as a bunch of religious fanatics socially isolating their kids from culture and diversity in order to brainwash their kids. However, the facts bear witness to the fact that the opposite is true. Here are some...
Scriptorium has two excellent posts on homeschooling, What is a Classical, Traditional, Christian Education? and Toward Virtue: Ten Lessons We Have Learned Home Schooling. I’ve provided the content of the second article as a list. Education must begin and end with virtue The best way...
I wanted to mention a couple of books that I’ve come across, books that address the responsibility of Christian parents to educate their children rather than leaving it up to the ailing public school system. In the preface of Excused Absence: Should Christian Kids Leave...
