http://education-advisory.org/Involved dedicated to parents wanting to be involved and effective in the education of their children Fri, 16 May 2008 15:41:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the 1987 Future of Freedom Conference in California we discussed education malpractice. I was involved with pursuing the topic: Public Education on Trial. Below are some excerpts from our brochure:   The world is very much as described in Orwell’s 1984. However, on a small secret island, SANOS, live several hundred people, mostly of ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/05/16/public-education-on-trial/   At the National Conference on Parent Involvement in 1976 in San Anselmo, California we all received a bookmark in our kits with the following inscription: The First School Laws in America (Massachusetts, 1642) embodied all the basic principles which underlie the American School System today. These are: 1.      Universal ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/04/06/first-school-laws-in-north-america/ As a grandmother of the early home education movement in North America, naturally I was concerned about the recent court ruling in California which basically criminalized about 200,000 home schooling parents lacking teaching credentials. Hopefully, if it is not overturned by the Supreme Court, Governor Schwarzenegger has promised legislative remedy: "Parents ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/03/12/criminalizing-home-education-california/ Continuing to archive material from my files, I came across this letter to the editor deploring lack of proper evaluation in schools and a preponderance of teachers on school boards. Notice the mood being described. Parents and public want concrete information about the achievements (or otherwise) of their schools. But the ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/02/11/educator-opposition-to-evaluation-a-long-history/   The education systems I follow – Canadian, American, and UK – are so ponderously top-heavy on the supply-side of education economics that they can only survive from toppling over by using complex, interlocking schemes that deliberately and successfully thwart reform efforts from the demand-side (the customers). Having usurped the rightful “property” ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/01/30/deceits-in-education/   “Canadian and American Policy makers should recognize the ability of parents to meet the educational needs of their children at home, without government involvement,” says Claudia Hepburn in the 2nd edition of Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream (Fraser Institute, Oct. 2007). The 24 page research document is worth ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2007/11/15/home-education-endorsed-as-reducing-socio-economic-disadvantages/ The Gore Global Warming controversies re: truth or otherwise of his film, books, speeches, etc. has at least exposed a lot more food for thought.  To me, the most important outcome so far has been the revealing of the existence of anti-indoctrination legislation in the English School Act, 1996.  How ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2007/10/13/indoctrination-laws-and-guidelines-for-schools/ Diane Ravitch, long time commentator on education, after attending another conference on the state of school performance in the United States, says, June 14, in the New York Sun : We have heard all of this before, for at least the past 25 years. When the time comes to talk about solutions, ... http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2007/07/23/toon-1/