From the Editor
Decisions regarding school are no longer limited to what to pack as an afternoon snack. This special issue on school options isn't meant to be the final word on your child's educational choices. Rather, it is some first words...
Special Issue / Fall 2009 Archives
Homeschooling
The National Center for Educational Statistics estimates that over 1.5 million children were homeschooled in 2007, nearly double the number from a decade earlier. This means that homeschoolers account for roughly one out of every fifty K-12 students in...
Dual Enrollment: The Right Challenge
Dual enrollment provides high school students with access to college-level courses after they have exhausted all of the options available at their high school. For our son, dual enrollment became the centerpiece of a homeschool curriculum that balanced radical academic...
Educational Strategies Volume 6 / Issue 4 / Summer 2006 Parent's Platform Witte, Gera
Virtual Schools—a Growing Reality
Imagine public education back in 1910: a single teacher in a one-room schoolhouse lit with candles and students working on slate boards with chalk. Fast-forward to 2010, an age so dependent on advanced technology that students take some classes online,...
Volume 6 / Issue 3 / Spring 2006 Model Program/Schools Schoolhouse Options Technology Young, Julie
The Many Faces of Acceleration: Creating an Optimal Match for the Advanced Learner
America's school system keeps bright students in line by forcing them to learn in a lock-step manner with their classmates. Teachers and principals disregard students’ desires to learn more—much more—than they are being taught. Instead of praise and encouragement, these...
Educational Strategies Feature Volume 6 / Issue 2 / Winter 2006 Robinson, Nancy M.