School Survival

by Peter Gray, Ph.D. The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling? Children are more anxious and depressed than ever before. Why? Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty […]

The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a bill that would tightly regulate homsechooling. The state House voted 324-34 against changes to the current law. "Winning by such a significant margin is welcome relief for New Hampshire homeschool families," said Mike Donnelly, staff attorney for Home School Legal Defense Association. The bill was […]

The Conservatives are promising to make teaching "brazenly elitist" by improving the quality of graduates entering the profession in England. Leader David Cameron said there would be no financial help with training for those who failed to get at least a second-class university degree. But those with the highest grades in maths and science could […]

Delaware’s child welfare law, known as The Delaware Child Care Act, is being used by state officials to unreasonably burden some homeschooling families with government oversight. As amended in 2001, the law defines “child care” to include, in part, any person, association, agency, or organization which (1) has in custody or control one child or […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio youth prison guard was fired and two others were disciplined after a teen offender's attempt to hang himself in a juvenile detention cell was ignored, according to an investigative report obtained by The Associated Press. One guard, who was fired Thursday, saw the youth with a blanket around his neck, […]

In a groundbreaking study released earlier this month by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an unconscionable 12.1 percent of youths confined in juvenile detention facilities reported being sexually abused at their current facility in the past year. As shocking as this statistic is, Texas children in custody fared even worse. Of the 13 Texas facilities […]

New article added to the articles section: Schooling: The hidden agenda. It's a speech Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael) gave at a home-schooling/unschooling conference. For those of you with short attention spans, here are some snippets I found interesting. I've even bolded some parts so if you have very SEVERE attention span issues, you can […]

by Rick The liberal elite see homeschoolers as more of a threat than your typical fruit of kaboom jihadist... or so it seems: Fundamentalist Protestant adults who were homeschooled over the last thirty years are not politically disengaged, far from it. They vote in far higher percentages than the rest of the population. They mobilize […]

by Idzie Have you ever heard someone be accused of being "childish", or been accused of that yourself? You probably have, because that's an extremely common insult. It's used when you have political opinions that other people disagree with (anarchy, for instance, is incredibly childish!), it's used when you dare to defy authority and stand […]

Parents struggling to get their kids to revise in the run-up to exams can now keep them at their desk using a ball and chain that only unlocks when they have studied for long enough. Concerned mums and dads set the desired study time on the Study Ball and attach it to their child's ankle. […]