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  • Back to the Books: Reinvigorating Our Reading This Summer

    Back to the Books: Reinvigorating Our Reading This Summer0

    In The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt, Jeff Shaara gives us a fine portrait of the 26th president of the United States. He incorporates many historical figures into his story, covers most of Roosevelt’s achievements and adventures, and explores Roosevelt’s personality and thinking. Students looking for an introduction to the 26th president, or

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  • Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read

    Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read22

    Between 1900 and 1950, literacy among Americans 14 years and older rose dramatically. The 1950 Census found that illiteracy was below 3% in two-thirds of the states and below 10% in all states. These studies defined illiteracy as a complete inability to read English or any other language. Seventy-five years later, that definition has changed a bit,

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  • Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschoolers

    Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschoolers0

    Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several U.S. states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that

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  • Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity

    Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity0

    Back-to-school season is here, and with the recent examples of race-based classroom activities and sexually charged curriculum in schools nationwide, parents are right to wonder what their students will be taught this fall. A recent commentary by an education reporter about his own children revealed that last year his sixth grader had no homework, spelling tests, handwriting

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  • Back to Homeschool

    Back to Homeschool3

    It began a few weeks ago: the back-to-school memes. One featured dejected kids dressed in new school clothes waiting for the bus while elated parents look forward to an empty house. My favorite meme so far is one with a mom in mid-kick, child flying through the air toward a waiting school bus. Freedom, at

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  • Back Row Kids: Dignity, Work, and the Vision of Williamson College

    Back Row Kids: Dignity, Work, and the Vision of Williamson College0

    On July 1, 1997, a massive rockslide closed I-40 between the Tennessee and North Carolina line. Boulders the size of school buses crashed across the highway and fell into the nearby Pigeon River. It took more than two months for work crews and government officials to clear away the debris – rocks, mud, trees –

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