December 8, 2008 – 8:08 am
Parents, be on guard, because your kids are watching very, very closely. A new Yale University study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that kids learn how to perform certain actions or tasks through a very dedicated form of imitation. They tend to copy all the motions or steps an adult [...]
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August 27, 2008 – 11:29 am
You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It’s a big family by today’s standards - “just like stair steps,” as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the store as she fills her no-frills shopping list.
There’s [...]
August 15, 2008 – 12:18 pm
By Adelle M. Banks
A California court Friday reversed its previous ruling and decided that most forms of home schooling are legal. The state appeals court says parents without teaching credentials may home school their children.
Last February, the California Court of Appeal ruled in a juvenile court case that public school enrollment is generally required unless [...]
August 15, 2008 – 12:11 pm
Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
A judge rules that the university system was not discriminatory in its refusal to count certain classes toward admission.
The University of California did not violate students’ freedom of expression and religion when it rejected some classes at a Riverside-area Christian school from counting toward UC admission, a Los Angeles [...]
Switched-On Schoolhouse, a unique computer-based Christian curriculum from Alpha Omega Publications, has been selected as the core curriculum by a new online Christian academy—Liberty University Online Academy (LUOA). Beginning this fall, LUOA will offer Switched-On Schoolhouse award-winning courses in four core subjects and various electives to enrolled students.
By Christina Laun
While Wikipedia isn’t likely to lose its status as the first place people look for quick answers anytime soon, there are loads of other sites out there that can provide you with information, some of which may even be better and more accurate. Whether you’re researching for a paper or just settling [...]
