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  • Beware Mama Bears

    Beware Mama Bears5

    The Presbyterian church where I once taught homeschoolers was located in a suburban neighborhood of Asheville filled with medium-sized houses and well-tended yards. And with its broad lawn and surrounding woods, the church was a place of tranquility. Except when the bears decided to pay a visit. Black bears roam much of western North Carolina,

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  • Beware Elise Stefanik’s Moneyman

    Beware Elise Stefanik’s Moneyman0

    Did “America First” conservatives really “win” the battle over the GOP’s congressional leadership last week? Old-guard Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney may be out of power as the House Republican Conference chair. But her replacement, New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, is a swampy shape-shifter whose campaign coffers are filled with open borders, radical social liberal,

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  • Beverly Cleary on Why Today’s Kids Aren’t Free to Roam

    Beverly Cleary on Why Today’s Kids Aren’t Free to Roam0

    There’s lots of talk these days about how children’s lives are far too structured. Children (the narrative goes) need time to run, play, imagine, and have freedom to do things on their own. Beverly Cleary, famous author and creator of Ramona Quimby & Co. agrees. She recently made several comments on the state of childhood

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  • Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling

    Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling7

    I have spent the past thirty-five years creating small, highly-personalized schools where students flourish. I have, if you will, bet my life on the value of these schools—microschools before they became a thing. Over the course of that time, I’ve seen hundreds of children who were anxious, depressed—sometimes even suicidal—become happy and well within weeks

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  • Betsy DeVos’ Support for Due Process on Campuses Draws Attack

    Betsy DeVos’ Support for Due Process on Campuses Draws Attack0

    Betsy DeVos, who was nominated to be the Education Secretary, was recently attacked because she and her husband made donations to a civil-liberties group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE is “a nonpartisan organization that defends free speech, religious liberty, and due process on college campuses.” FIRE is also responsible for many free-speech

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  • Betsy DeVos’ Secret (and Paradoxical) Weapon

    Betsy DeVos’ Secret (and Paradoxical) Weapon0

    Over the past few weeks, the political and media controversy has primarily centered around Donald Trump’s various selections for cabinet positions. Perhaps, of them all, the one pick that has garnered the most profuse and stringent criticism has been Trump’s choice for United States Secretary of Education—Betsy DeVos. Whether one believes the Michigan philanthropist and

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