Instructor/Parent Question: Do you teach a whitewashed version of history?

We received the following question this week from someone considering our courses for her son. As it’s an excellent (and recurring) question, we’re glad to have received her permission to share it here: We’re excited to have found your courses as we head into home educating our son for high school. We’re trying to be […]
A Suggestion for Improving Student Writing

An excerpt from Nate Noorlander’s recent article on Bookshark’s blog, published 1 August, 2024: Students seem to like writing as much as adults like public speaking: It’s almost universally dreaded. But there are few assignments that can tell us as much about how well a student can think. Can they stay organized? Can they communicate […]
Media Literacy Is an Essential Skill. Schools Should Teach It That Way

An excerpt from Nate Noorlander’s EducationWeek article, published 12 July, 2024: You can read this essay in a number of ways. You might skim it and forget it—the fate of most internet content. Or you might take it seriously, consider it against your own intuition and experience, and note points of agreement and disagreement. From a […]
One “ping” to rule them all

I was once in a faculty meeting to decide on a coherent school smartphone policy. We were in the drama room on the stage of a kind of amphitheater, sixty of us sitting across from each other in a large circle. You could tell the teachers apart by the way they dressed and who they […]
Does Homeschool Work? “Sourcing” to cut through the statistical noise

A famous study from 1999 by Lawrence M. Rudner surveyed nearly 21,000 homeschooled students and found that their median test scores were typically in the 70th to 80th percentiles, and that 25% of homeschooled students were enrolled in a grade level that was higher than their public school counterparts. This study was widely cited by […]

