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Women Shouldered Most of Kids’ In-home Schooling Needs During Early Pandemic
(We don’t think this comes as much of a surprise…) February 21, 2024 By Laurel White Women took on more education-related childcare responsibilities than men during the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this disparity was even sharper for some … Continue reading
Multiculturalism & the Loss of Americanism
Exploring the Homeschooling Arguments of the 80’s & 90’s – Reviewing old Editorials in the Light of our Present Day The Blumenfeld Education Letter Revisited Vol 1, No 1 (pt. 1) – Sept. 1986 (NOTE: The following editorial has been quoted … Continue reading
Posted in Americanism, education, education reform, God Bless America, homeschooling, Multicultural Education, multiculturalism, Phonics, Reading, teaching, Teaching Moral Anarchy, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, History of American Education, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Censorship & Propaganda – The Theft of Voice
If you have spent much time around children, especially quarrelling children, you may have observed disputes over who gets to explain what just happened. Here are some examples which I have witnessed. Children rushing toward me with their mouths full … Continue reading
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Tagged Ain't I a Woman, Alpha-Phonics, frederick douglass, History of American Education, Homeschooling, josiah henson, propaganda, reading, reading and writing, Samuel Blumenfeld, slave narratives, Sojourner Truth, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Uncle Tom's Cabin, voice, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Legislating Religion in New England (What I learned from Sam, #3)
In the year 1620 a group of Puritans set sail from Plymouth, England, on a venture for freedom in the New World. They were armed with utopian ideas, hoping to escape from post-Reformation tyrants. They wanted to be self-governed, and … Continue reading
Who Taught George Washington? (What I learned from Sam, #2)
Who taught George Washington? How about Benjamin Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? Do you care to guess? Lawrence A. Cremin (author of “American Education: The Colonial Experience 1607-1783”) describes the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the U.S. Constitution as … Continue reading
Posted in Declaration of Independence, George Washington's education, homeschooling, Thomas Jefferson, tutoring, U.S. Constitution
Tagged Colonial schools, History of American Education, Homeschooling, How to Tutor, Samuel Blumenfeld, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Signers of the U.S. Constitution
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Blumenfeld Oral Reading Assessment Test
How To Tutor
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