The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) pointed out that there is no state law for restrictions on age of homeschooled children.
Articles By: Spencer Irvine
MLA Ignores Victims of Communism
The fall of communism and socialism have “robbed” the “post-Sovietized world,” Noemi Marin of Florida Atlantic University suggested at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in Vancouver, Canada. After the fall of the Berlin…
Quick Hits: Community College Grad Rates
Via Columbia University’s Community College Research Center: “According to a recent study by the National Student Clearinghouse, 15 percent of students who started at two-year institutions in 2006 completed a degree at a four-year institution…
41% of North Carolina Community College Students Graduate in 6 Years
This is not a lie, but a real statistic. That is barely 4 in 10 community college students earning a two-year associate’s degree in 6 years. That isn’t good enough. The worst part is that…
Virginia drops Controversial Homeschooling Religious Explanation Requirement
It does sound a bit over-the-top, but it’s good that the Goochland County School Board dropped the requirement for homeschooled children.
Obama’s “Free” Community College Plan Prolongs High School
A really good take from The Federalist: “Grade inflation and enrollment inflation caused by converting community college to an entitlement will produce a high school graduating cohort that is ill-equipped for college work and weighed…
School Choice a Major Issue in GOP, puts Mitt Romney ahead of Jeb Bush
Homeschooling or other options vs. Common Core means the former will win in the GOP. No surprise there.
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NAFTA Encourages Violence in Mexico, MLA Panel Alleges
The North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA, between Canada, U.S. and Mexico, signed by President Clinton encourages graphic posts of murders of Mexicans by cartels and corrupt officials, panelists on a panel at the Modern…
Feminists, Gays and Crip[ple] Theory
In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a discussion, four female professors went over their papers on feminist, queer and disability theory (the…