Full Story »The Sweet Compromise of Neutrality
When Reb Bradley published his article, “Solving the Crisis in Homeschooling,” it deservedly received much attention from the homeschool community in the US. The article is an honest estimate of the blind spots in homeschooling, told by a homeschooling father who is looking back and assessing the mistakes he has made; and also the mistakes [...]
Full Story »Do You Really Want Washington to Make Budget Cuts?
In America’s current economic state, many propose cutting the budget. But when you get down to talking of cutting specific programs such as Medicare, Social Security or government education people start to balk. Most people are not willing to give up a government program that they benefit from, but ultimately we will have to give [...]
Full Story »A $600+ Billion Spending Cut
This will not be done. It will not be done because Americans do not really want major spending cuts. To demonstrate my point, let us consider America’s sacred cow, tax-funded education. According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Factbook,” the United States spends about 5.3% of gross domestic product each year on education. If that estimate [...]
Full Story »The Socialization of Education
An education is one of the few things that we can give ourselves and our children that will have lifelong effects. Although most American families send their children—as they themselves were sent by their own parents—to public schools, how often have we stopped to question the goals of the public education system? Christian parents especially [...]
Full Story »Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview
Gary interviews Israel Wayne, author of the book Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview and regular columnist for Home School Digest. Israel will be on of the featured speakers at American Vision’s Worldview Super Conference this July 21 24.
Full Story »The Battle for America’s Christian Heritage
The textbooks for all public schools hinge on the choices of the school board of Texas. Now with seven Christian members, this school board is confronted with liberals that object to the Christian record found in American history. Gary reviews the historical record to show what is the truthful conclusion that should be taken with America’s history textbooks.
Full Story »Taking on the Textbooks in Error
Public education has textbooks riddled with factual errors, revisionist history, and biased views of science. Some Christians are challenging the status quo, and the liberals are retaliating. Are conservatives in a position to make right the wrongs in these textbooks, and how will the opposition respond? Gary shares his insights.
Full Story »Homeschool Graduate Greats of History
Richard Dawkins labeled Tim Tebow as illogical, blaming his supposed inability to think on his homeschooling. Joel McDurmond responds by showing the illogical fallacy of this statement, and then by listing all the historical greats who were homeschooled, showing how homeschoolers are anything but stupid.
Full Story »The Demographics of Irrelevance
Not long ago my family and I attended a wedding. It was a wonderful Christian wedding, the bride is a daughter of a family in our church, the bridegroom is a committed Christian, young missionary in Eastern Europe. Both were homeschooled, both love the Lord, and the wedding ceremony was planned by them to be both a worship service to God and a witness to the unbelievers among those present. It was a delight to attend.
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