There is, I think, nothing more maddening for me than to watch or listen to or even hear about one of this president’s moralistic speeches, the ones wherein he  counsels everyone to “be true to American values”. I didn’t have to watch it or hear it but he just did another one, a commencement speech

There are only 24 hours in a day…damn!  I am BUSY.  I have been unable to blog about the Dobson fellow from Focus on the Family, Obama and his about face with public financing, the alleged baby pact in Massachusetts, R. Kelly and Lisa Van Allen, the ridiculous media discourse on the potential first ladies

BOSTON, MA - Representative Barbara L’Italien (D-Andover) today announced that a $2,400,000 increase was appropriated to the Division on Autism and a $2,000,000 appropriation was allocated to Special Education Out of District Transportation. Both were voted on favorably by the House. The Division on Autism funding, now totaling $5,321,753, includes: • $4M for the Autism Medicaid

Every May groups of elementary school students take field trips to the Arts Council for our Art Education in Action program. They have the opportunity to tour the current exhibit, participate in some hands on art activities, and view artists in action. This year the exhibit was “Generations: The Art and Culture of the Tulalip

a view as usual from top of the hill: Karl Prantl´s sculpture Stein für Josef Matthias Hauer,  head & guard of the sculpture-garden on the hills of St. Margarethen in Burgenland at evening of the opening of the exhibition aufi-obi-umigehn staged by young German artists. same time on the other side of the hill: a new con/temporary sight these days:                                    

By Bob Unruh A mother and father who have been homeschooling their children each have been ordered by a German judge to serve three-month prison terms after a prosecutor said he was unhappy with fines the family paid and he wanted the parents jailed. The sentences for Juergen and Rosemarie Dudek were announced in Germany’s equivalent of

Press Release Atlanta, GA — The federal Department of Education is spending almost $70 billion this year on a function not even mentioned in the Constitution. “The Department should be closed down and the money left with the American people to use for education at the family, local, and state levels,” says Bob Barr, the

During Term Time We offer support to ‘Home Educators’ We run a Montessori Farm School for 3 days a week, with a parent partnership for 2 days a week. We have a broad curriculum for children of 6 -16 years of age. We are dedicated to preparing the children for a sustainable future for human habitation on this planet. We

My favorite avoidance activity: Editing Wikipedia. Each time I edit, I get the sense I’ve made the world a little bit better. And every time I start playing Wikipedia, I get just a little bit smarter. Wikipedia is inherently unreliable, of course. (cf, Michael Scott’s thoughts on Wikipedia.) And I’d never quote it in public. But

Somehow I managed to skate through twelve years of public school (and nearly as many years of college) with only a minimal exposure to science. Now I’m trying to compensate. And LiveScience.com is my drug of choice. I especially enjoy reading the science blogs and reports on scientific studies. Every day the site hosts fascinating articles