MorningStars Home Education NewsMorningStars Home Education NewsMimi Rothschild is a homeschool mom just like you. She shares her thoughts about homeschooling her eight children with you each week. Articles
A Case For Home Schooling
2007-11-27 21:52:00 By Mimi Rothschild Vickie Suarez makes a compelling argument for home schooling in her article published in The Star-Gazette earlier this week. The fact of the matter is that home schooling is on the rise in America, despite bogus claims from critics about socialization and academic issues. These claims are of course bogus because study after ... More About: Home , Case
Activating Prior Knowledge: Part 2 of 2
2007-11-13 20:44:00 By Mimi Rothschild Here’s part two of this incredibly informative article about using prior knowledge to enhance your child’s homeschool education. How Can You Make It Happen? Start showing students how to make connections to their reading systematically and explicitly. Some teachers devote a good amount of time (6-8 weeks) to study a particular comprehension ... More About: Star Academy , Morning , Knowledge , Part , Activa
Activating Prior Knowledge: Part 1 of 2
2007-11-12 15:45:00 By Mimi Rothschild Are you looking to increase your homeschool child’s level of reading comprehension? If you are then read the first part of this informative article about activating prior knowledge. What Is It? Call it schema, relevant background knowledge, prior knowledge, or just plain experience, when students make connections to the text they are reading, their comprehension ... More About: Star Academy , Morning , Knowledge , Part , Activa
Visualizing: Part 2 of 2
2007-11-06 15:03:00 By Mimi Rothschild Here is part two of the visualizing article I posted yesterday. Let me know what you think! Have you tried a visualizing strategy before with your children? Did it work? If it didn’t then what has worked for your child’s reading comprehension? Taking Visualizing to the Next Level Visualization activities lend themselves to follow-up lessons. ... More About: Part
Visualizing: Part 1 of 2
2007-11-05 14:21:00 By Mimi Rothschild It is crucial that homeschooling children perceive and understand what they read, no matter if they’re in first grade or twelfth grade. The ability to comprehend text is an absolute necessity for students in the current fast-paced competitive digital world. One way homeschoolers can improve their reading comprehension is by visualizing. Read all about ... More About: Part
Cooperative Learning For Homeschooling Students
2007-10-30 14:39:00 By Mimi Rothschild Are you thinking about creating your own homeschool co-op or are you unfamiliar with what a cooperative is? If so then please read this fantastic article I found while surfing the web this morning. If you are in a co-op let me know how it’s going? What are the benefits and what sort of unique things ... More About: Students , Star Academy , Homeschooling , Morning , Learning
Teaching Children with ADD/ADHD
2007-10-23 20:10:00 By Mimi Rothschild In 2007 it seems as if everyone is close to a child that has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but what exactly is ADHD/ADD? How do you know if your child is suffering from this disorder? How do you teach a child with ADD/ADHD, especially if they are homeschooled? Learn the answers ... More About: Children , Teaching
The MorningStar Academy Graduating Senior Publishes Book
2007-07-18 14:22:00 By Mimi Rothschild The MorningStar Academy is proud to announce that graduating senior Melissa Pettignano?s first book, entitled ?Suzanna Lantana? is now available to the public. ?Suzanna Lantana? ?is about a young, full of life girl that has gone through many things a pre-teen would go through all the way up to being a teen. The ... More About: Senior , Book , Adua , Cade
Home Schooling Virtual Schools Will Save American Education
2007-07-18 14:11:00 By Mimi Rothschild Robert Jacobson, senior editor of eSchool News online, wrote an eye-opening article on virtual schools and discusses how virtual schools could dramatically transform America?s education system. Laboratories of Reform: Virtual High Schools and Innovation in Public Education , a new report from Education Sector notes that ?Virtual schooling is driving the same sorts ... More About: Star Academy , Home , American
Welcome to the Jungle that is Public School: Guns, Gangs, and Teachers?
2007-07-18 13:57:00 By Mimi Rothschild As if public schools weren?t dangerous and chaotic enough. Public schools now have to deal with dodgy teachers lurking in the classrooms waiting to pounce on vulnerable students. Of course, the majority of public school teachers are not a threat to students, but the number of crimes being committed by teachers ... More About: Guns , School , Jungle , Gangs
Public School Educator Gives Home Schooling High Marks
2007-07-03 19:08:00 By Mimi Rothschild Hello all, this is a short post, but I thought I?d share this great article I read. Duane Sheppard, a retired educator with almost three decades of experience in the public school system, wrote a compelling article on home schooling and home schooling?s increasing popularity. I find Mr. Sheppard?s article to ... More About: Star Academy , Public , Home , School , Morning
The Decision to Homeschool
2007-07-03 18:53:00 By Mimi Rothschild Thirteen years ago, Jon Yarrington was on his way to way to work on the first day of school when his wife told him that she wouldn?t send her children to the local public school anymore. Yarrington was a skeptic of home schooling at the time, but 13 years later he is ... More About: Star Academy , Morning , Decision , The D
Corporations in the Classroom?
2007-06-20 18:30:00 By Mimi Rothschild Children all over the United States and Canada are being bombarded in their own public schools by a slew of marketing messages from corporate America. Public school students can no longer walk down the hallway, ride the bus, or even open up their textbooks without being subjected to a message that essentially ... More About: Star Academy , Morning , Corporations
Homeschooling Receives Long Overdue Credit From Mainstream Media
2007-06-12 23:31:00 By Mimi Rothschild Michael Alison Chandler of The Washington Post wrote a compelling and positive article on homeschooling yesterday. Often times the mainstream media has been critical of homeschooling. Media outlets have overlooked homeschooling?s success and instead focused on a number of unimportant related issues during the debate over homeschooling. Chandler gives credit ... More About: Credit , Homeschooling , Long , Mainstream Media
The MorningStar Academy Summer Reading List and Summer Programs
2007-06-06 19:01:00 By Mimi Rothschild What are your homeschoolers doing this summer? Going back in time? Sailing on the high seas? Hanging out with the three little pigs? Summer is the perfect time for homeschoolers to improve their readings skills and have a blast while doing it. We?ve compiled a comprehensive summer reading ... More About: Reading , Academy , Programs , List
Interview Reveals Number of Homeschool Students up Twenty-Nine Percent in A
2007-06-05 19:04:00 By Mimi Rothschild Parents are dramatically pulling their children out of public schools to homeschool them instead. According to the National Center for Education Statistics the number of homeschool students in 2003 is up 29 percent from 1999. Just imagine the increase of homeschool students in America now in 2007. Parents are discovering the benefits ... More About: Students , Interview , Twenty , Went , Number
Christian Homeschools Growing as Critics Hurl Stones
2007-05-31 23:35:00 By Mimi Rothschild America is at the crossroads in many different facets of life. Religion, or difference in opinion on religious issues, acts as the catalyst that has propelled America to this new era of hostility between Christian s and Atheists. According to Rachel Zoll of The Washington Post Christopher Hitchens has published another anti-Christian book entitled ... More About: Growing , Tones , Rowing , Crit
Experienced Educator Explains the Inadequacy of Public Schools in New Book
2007-05-24 17:29:00 By Mimi Rothschild Patricia Kokinos, a teacher and an assistant principal for more than 25 years paints a dark picture of the public school system in America. ?Angel Park? is a fictional novel that was inspired by Kokinos career as an educator and her experiences in fighting for school reform. The novel describes the ... More About: Schools , Star Academy , Public , Book , Morning
Michelle Malkin Understands Homeschoolers
2007-05-14 17:28:00 By Mimi Rothschild It’s a short post, but it’s something. Possibly the hottest conservatively-minded politics and culture blogger, Mich elle Malkin has linked two news stories that should make your blood boil. The first, from the Edmonton Sun paints a picture of absolute terror as sixth graders were subjected to a staged gun attack. One of the teachers ... More About: Homeschoolers , Hell , Michelle Malkin
The Importance of Creativity in Education
2007-05-10 22:04:00 By Mimi Rothschild Ken Robinson provides us with a witty and incisive critique of how the public school squanders the minds of children by squelching their natural creativity. Arguing that creativity is just as important as literacy (which we’re not doing so well on either), Robinson declares that so many children are shuffled from class to ... More About: Education , Star Academy , Creativity , Morning , Ducati
Stupid in America
2007-05-05 00:30:00 Have you ever seen John Stossel’s “Stupid in America ” documentary? If not, I highly encourage you to check it out when you have a free forty minutes. It doesn?t tell we homeschoolers anything we don?t already know, but it justifies our cause like no other video, book, or lecture I?ve watched. We all know naysayers that ... More About: Star Academy , Morning
Announcing the Jr. Picasso Contest
2007-04-27 23:22:00 Attention all starving artists! The MorningStar Academy is now accepting submissions for our Jr. Picas so Art Contes t . Submit your artwork now for a chance to win a gift certificate from Utrecht Art Supply! All children under the age of 18 are welcome to enter. Please visit the following web page for more information. Homeschooling Art ? The ... More About: Star Academy , Test
Our Prayers are with You
2007-04-16 23:15:00 By Mimi Rothschild I would like to take a moment to extend our sympathies and prayers to the families of the students who were killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. In times like these, it is difficult to find words to express what we are feeling. As a mother who has lost a child, I know ... More About: Prayers , Prayer , With , Raye , Pray
Homeschooling Professor Lays it Down
2007-04-10 16:04:00 By Mimi Rothschild I was overjoyed to read an article in the Boston Pilot that served as a pretty good introduction to the joys and advantages of homeschooling. Prof essor Michael Pakaluk is a professor of philosophy in Cambridge, Mass. who has chosen to homeschool his 16-year old daughter. He provides the following excellent list. 1. ... More About: Homeschooling , Home , School , Homes
Sam Harris vs. Rick Warren
2007-04-03 15:39:00 By Mimi Rothschild In one corner we have the it-boy of evangelical Christendom, Rick War ren . Pastor of the 25,000-strong Saddleback mega-church, Warren is certainly a force to be reckoned with. In the other corner, Sam Harris, prominent atheist author and student of neuroscience. When these two power-players square off, it is bound to be interesting. I’m disappointed in ... More About: Arri , Rick Warren
Announcing Online Summer School Program
2007-03-26 16:30:00 By Mimi Rothschild The MorningStar Academy is pleased to announce our online Summer School Prog ram! This program allows existing homeschoolers and public school students to enroll in a course from July 2-August 31. This program is a wonderful solution for children who are interested in preparing for college, wish to make up a missed class, learn ... More About: Online , Summer School
Legislators Attempt to Raise Compulsory Attendance Age
2007-03-20 15:45:00 By Mimi Rothschild Problem: Children don’t like going to school. Solution: Make it mandatory! Problem 2: Children still don’t like going to school. Solution 2: Make them stay longer! From the HSLDA: “Senate Bill 171 is a legislative proposal which would raise North Carolina?s compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 17, until the child graduates from high school. If enacted, ... More About: Dance , Comp , Tend , Legi , Puls
Colleges Friendlier towards Homeschoolers
2007-03-13 15:02:00 By Mimi Rothschild The Deseret News has some good news. College s are becoming friendlier towards homeschoolers. In the past, college admissions departments raised an eyebrow at the applications of homeschoolers. As homeschooling grows in popularity, these institutions of higher learning have begun not only considering homeschooled applicants, but seeking them out. And with good reason! Home schoolers ... More About: School , War
Homeschooling Triples in Britain
More articles from this author:2007-03-01 04:16:02 By Mimi Rothschild At least 16,000 children in the UK are homeschooling, according to a recent Guardian article. According to parents, bullying is the primary reason that parents choose to homeschool. I’ve heard that bullying in Britain makes America’s average bullying behavior look tame. Children have committed suicide over it. The UK’s increased religious subgroups such as Muslims, Gypsies, and Christians have also opted to remove their children from government-sponsored schools. A DfES spokesman said: “Standards have never been higher and with record funding in our schools we believe the best place to educate a child is actually in school. Not all homeschoolers are convinced. And why should they be? Funding does not equal quality. “Some of the parents interviewed felt that standards of education had declined,” the report said. This, coupled with a view that the current education system is overly bureaucratic, inflexible and assessment-drive... More About: Homeschooling , Home , School , Homes 1, 2, 3 |
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