Hybrid Homeschooling and the Benefits of a Decentralized Education System - FEE.com
"Now, more families recognize the tremendous value of these hybrid homeschool programs and similar microschool models. They are increasingly seeking them out, while entrepreneurial parents and educators meet this mounting demand by creating more of these offerings." Full article HERE
What Is Trivium University? Learn More On The Jim Rutt Show
Jim talks with Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman about their new online graduate program, Trivium University. They discuss the trivium & the quadrivium, instilling a better sense of grammar, the current digital paradigm, five paradigms in communication technology, the outsourcing of memory, retrieving scribal ways of thinking, why we need another university, re-centering professor-student interaction, […]
What if 2 Types of Education Reform — Charter Schools and Education Savings Accounts — Merged?
.....Three things stand out as reasons why charter school leaders and board members might consider making the switch. First, in places where charters are authorized by local public school districts, ESAs give the option of decoupling. The relationship between a charter and its authorizing school board is often a tenuous one, where charters must show […]
Ohio budget expands vouchers, plans to spend $2B in next two years
The amount of money a student can receive in a voucher also rose by 12%, the same percent increase given to traditional public schools. High school students can now get up to $8,407, and kindergarten through eighth grade students can get up to $6,165. Traditional public schools got an estimated $1.54 billion increase in funding, […]
Iowa school voucher applications surpass expectations, cost likely to follow -KCRG.com
As of Friday, the Iowa Department of Education says it has received 15,538 applications for an Educational Savings Account, or ESA, to provide state funding for a student to attend a private K-12 school. A Legislative Services Agency analysis projected 14,068 would enroll in the first year of the program. The application period runs through June 30th, […]
Get Phones Out of Schools Now by Jonathan Haidt
After stumbling on a Jonathan Haidt Ted Talk and then reading The Rightous Mind, it became clear that Haidt was on to something that was describing our current culture in America. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and author, has made significant contributions in describing and analyzing the current situation in America. Haidt's work focuses on […]