Good Oak and Good History: Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo LeopoldOn this sand farm in Wisconsin, first worn out and then abandoned by our bigger-and-better society, we try to rebuild, with shovel and axe,...
View ArticleWhat Are Blogs? Not Monologues but Conversations
Perhaps the best thing about the web, and the blogosphere in particular, is that it enables you to connect with like-minded people you might never meet otherwise. –Kriss M. at Circle M FarmOn January...
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Writing Tips from Hobgoblins, Pandas, and Doves
The fantastically helpful Janice Campbell has reviewed Miss Thistlebottom’s Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer’s Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears, and Outmoded Rules of English Usage; Lynn Truss’ (or is that...
View ArticleFamily, Heroes, and History
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo LeopoldThe weekend of Earth Day, 2007, marked the grand opening of the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. The building, on the Leopold family land in sandy...
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The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More - in which we are still looking for the...
Our friend Kriss is on the map! The first product of the Chick Mappers, a group of Mark Harrower’s students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 100-Mile Diet Map is an interactive map of food...
View ArticleOn Manifestoes
On occasion, the course of human events leads human beings to sit back and take stock of where they stand, to state what they believe, and to come to terms, for good or ill, with what they see as...
View ArticleHomeschool Moments: Dishing Out BOF, Dealing with Prejudice
So I’m walking across the living room with an open book, and my 11-year-old son asks me what I’m doing. I tell him I’m writing a blog post, and show him the picture of Elizabeth Eckford in 1957,...
View ArticleWe’re All Home Schoolers
Messiah College professor Milton Gaither, author of Homeschool: An American History, reviewing a study of the effectiveness of the Building Strong Families parent education program:…this study serves...
View ArticleMadame President, Our Teacher
The primary role of parents applies also to teachers and world leaders:Dear Madame President [though of course, you may turn out to be a man]:Teaching and teacher education have traditionally been...
View ArticleEssential and Subversive: Parents in Education
Dana Henley at Principled Discovery quotes a Florida newspaper story, Home schooling grows by 80 percent in state in past decade which, following a decent enough overview of the experiences of its...
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