By Anna Hunt The documentary Pharmabuse compiles interviews with various medical professions who are speaking out about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The film raises a growing concern that schools play an integral role in the hasty over-diagnosis of ADHD in school children. ADHD: Real or Fake?…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Parents are overjoyed when their two-year-olds ‘master’ computer games and cell phones. They interpret that as “look how smart my kid is!” Well, that’s really not the take-away message parents should be coming up with. Maybe their youngsters inadvertently are becoming…
By Josh Richardson An established but little-known psychological theory is likely to improve performances across a range of activities, including sport, according to new research published that can be applied to amateurs or skilled performers alike says psychologist Dr Warren Mansell, from The University of…
By Anna Hunt A school in Jonesboro, Arkansas, has joined many others in turning to an alternative method of discipline. The Success Achievement Academy has stopped using in-school suspension as punishment. Instead, the directors started using yoga as a means of helping students relieve stress…
By Kerry McDonald How Schooling Crushes Creativity In 2006, educator and author Ken Robinson gave a TED Talk called, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” At over 45 million views, it remains the most viewed talk in TED’s history. Robinson’s premise is simple: our current education system strips…
By Kevin Currie-Knight As a rule, I no longer ask school age-children how they’re doing in school. Let me explain why. Recently, my wife and I took a trip to see family and friends, several of whom have school-age children. I noticed that when adults interact…
By Kerry McDonald Homeschoolers are a diverse bunch. Our teaching approaches and learning philosophies vary. Our politics run the gamut and our visions of education reform differ greatly. Yet, despite these contrasts, homeschoolers are remarkably similar. I recently asked a large, eclectic group of homeschooling parents…
By Annie Holmquist Late last summer, Texas teacher Brandy Young made internet waves when she sent a note about homework to the parents of her students. Instead of the normal spend-30-minutes-a-day-on-homework command that parents normally hear, Mrs. Young’s note informed them that she would not be giving…
By Organic and Healthy While many adults are currently looking at how to grow their own food, the future may already be in front of our eyes: One school aims to teach kids how to grown their own food as part of a nursery! A…
By True Activist According to www.webometrics.info, there are more than 17 000 universities, but getting a degree in many of them is quite costly. Many students around the world(and their families) get into big debt or have to work over sixty hours a week in order to afford…
Op-ed by Heather Callaghan I had to share this awesome teacher’s homework policy – I remember with regret the dread of hours of homework during school and trying to get out of it any way possible… It consumed my childhood. I should have been playing, but any…
By Norma Erickson, President SaneVax Inc Last week, the parents of hundreds of girls experiencing new medical conditions after Gardasil administration blocked classes in educational institutions by padlocking the entrances to local schools. These families claim hundreds of affected girls have been left without treatment for two…
By Piper McGowin The new vaccine refusal form, produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics to be handed out in doctors’ offices across the country to parents who don’t want to vaccinate their kids, essentially forces those parents to incriminate themselves and “admit” that by signing…
By Natural Blaze This is an easy to take quiz that might not be that easy. That’s because spelling was a serious subject in 1904. Although students in the 1900s were glued to their tablets, they wrote on them repeatedly with chalk. Corrective, squiggly underlines…
By Mac Slavo Here’s the fraud of the State in action. It seems that the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment sent out a letter to parents demanding that those who have not vaccinated their children register them on a state website under requirement…
By John Vibes A new preschool is teaching children gardening and urban farming, and many of their classes are hands-on, working on an actual farm. Edoardo Capuzzo Dolcetta and a team of other designers have been working to bring children closer to nature during their…
By Brian Berletic What if school not only taught you the basics like reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also how to build a community from the ground up? With these skills, you could specialize in any field from the humanities to science and technology, and…
By Andrew Demeter “The Big Decision” explores America’s system of college education. Why do most students enroll? How can the problem of student debt be solved? And in what ways can alternatives to college, such as trade schools, be promoted? Andrew Demeter is a young…
By John Vibes Education Secretary Nicky Morgan of the UK has recently voiced concerns that children are not receiving the proper brand of brainwashing and indoctrination from the government. Morgan called for a review of homeschooling and suggested that thousands of children are being “radicalized”…
By Heather Callaghan But it may have proven more… A social media April Fool’s prank spearheaded by NPR in 2014 is – ironically – drawing some reflection. This isn’t one of those frustrating social media psychology tests without the users’ knowledge. It appears to have been a…
