‘Achievement gap’ should be narrower by 2013

Children put imaginations to work at Camp Invention MAR LIN – With a few water bottles, parts from a junk electric drill and some string, 7-year-old Zachary Schrag built “a jet pack.”Schrag, a student of the North Schuylkill School District, was exploring the world of make-believe at the third annual Cam Read more on The [...]

Homeschooling – Why Should You Homeschool?

Why should you homeschool? Why you opt to do so, or not, is a personal choice; those who choose to do so have many different reasons. Some parents want to instill certain values, while others want to protect their children from what they see as an unsafe public school environment. Still others think that they [...]

Should You Homeschool Your Children?

The ability to home school your child has many positive aspects, probably one of the biggest being the ability to give each child very specific, individualized, one on one attention. Another plus for home schooling vs public school your own child is that the child doesn’t have to deal with many of the negative peer pressure [...]