Our children’s education is one of the biggest, most time-consuming, and important matters that we as parents attend to during the twenty or so years we have to bring our helpless infants up to adulthood. We spend a lot of time thinking about algebra and spelling lists and whether we’ll start foreign language this year, [...]

Lately, I’ve been considering changing our math curriculum, and I thought I’d ask all of you. If you homeschool, what math curriculum do you use? What do you like about it? What do you see as the drawbacks, if any? I’m looking forward to seeing what you all think!

Once again, research is failing to validate a long-cherished belief. This time it’s in the realm of education, and it’s hitting that beloved icon of diligence and superior achievement: homework. Apparently, homework doesn’t really help kids learn all that much. Like my cousin pointed out when she passed along the article to her homeschooling family [...]