Taiwan last week became the 109th country to ban all school corporal punishment, in private schools as well as public! Sonya Hsieh, a teacher from Taiwan exploring positive school discipline in the U.S. on a Taiwan Government grant, spoke last night in my home at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Discipline. She […]
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US: Sending the right back to school
"If you want highly skilled teachers who work investment banker hours, we have to pay them like - well, if not quite like investment bankers, then a lot more generously than we pay them now. This is the point most conservatives refuse to accept. They think you can supply the schools with dynamic, extremely hardworking […]
US: No Child Left Behind applied behind bars
The Eager Street Academy is a Baltimore public school behind bars, with the most troubled student body in the city. Nonetheless, its staff has the impossible job of complying with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Located in the Baltimore City Detention Center, the school's approximately 130 students - ages 14 to 17 - are […]
US: 'Your Home Education Program is Terminated!'
Hundreds of parents in Marion County were told by public school officials that their homeschools were no longer legal and that they had 10 days to enroll their children elsewhere. Our attorneys took action and quickly showed officials that they had made a mistake.==========How would you feel if you received an official letter from public […]
Bullying.
bullying: reactions on bullying, that i thougt was great!... thanks. :) Robert said:"Ignore them. This is one of the hardest things to do, but it works. Ignoring the people who bully you will be hard, since they tend to come after you, but what worked for me was to start lifting weights. School is a […]
Homeschoolers content to take Child's lead
CHICAGO, Nov. 23 - On weekdays, during what are normal school hours for most students, the Billings children do what they want. One recent afternoon, time passed loudly, and without order or lessons, in their home in a North Side neighborhood here.Hayden Billings, 4, put a box over his head and had fun marching into […]
US: No grades, no homework, no tests
One recent day at the Brooklyn Free School, the "schedule" included the following: filming horror movies, chess, debate and making caves for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Not that the students had to go to any of these sessions. At this school, students don't get grades, don't have homework, don't take tests, and don't even have to […]
US: Students prove themselves more mature than school officials
Older News, but still good: Looking back at El Camino Real High School's embarrassing bout with censorship last week, it's hard not to conclude that the Woodland Hills campus would be better off if the students -- and not the administrators -- were in charge.Because while the students have demonstrated humor, common sense and self-restraint, […]
US: Homeschool 'Inspection' Scheduled at Police Station
On October 9, 2006, the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) sent a letter to some homeschooling families in the Raleigh/Johnston County area requesting that they meet with a representative of DNPE on November 2 to review their school records. Parents agreeing to meet with the state official were required to bring their children […]
US: District Seeks Homeschooling Curriculum Review
After a Home School Legal Defense Association member family filed a notice of intent to conduct home instruction with East Lyme Public Schools, they received a letter from the school district instructing them to make an appointment "in order to review the curriculum [the family would] be providing." Apparently this proposed curriculum review was an […]
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