More #CommonCore Math Madness, we have to #StopCommonCore

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In a post at Math Recap Blog titled Math Specialists Get Ready Now: Common Core Assessments Are Coming BY RAYMOND JOHNSON | PUBLISHED MAY 6, 2013 I have had an interesting chat this past week with one of the Pearson curriculum developers in the comment section tied to the post. Jenny Hatch says: May 7, … Read more

Alinsky tactics being used to Derail #StopCommonCore activists, The Delphi Technique – What it is and How to Disrupt it…

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This first video is an excellent overview of the whole Common Core Agenda. Today this clip made the rounds on Twitter. It is a short video taken at a Missouri Common Core Community Meeting on May 2nd 2013. The video is unique because it shows the Delphi Technique in action. It also depicts the response … Read more

#StopCommonCore, A Twitter Rally Miracle

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Uncommon Lore, A Series of Education Essays by Homeschooling Mom Blogger Jenny Hatch Essay Five: A Twitter Rally Miracle #StopCommonCore was the top trending hashtag on Twitter last night for hours and hours. As a Mom interested in Education Issues, I found myself getting weepy several times as I participated in the rally. The whole … Read more

Uncommon Lore: The Original Saxon Math Curriculum. MATH, a firm foundation to build a homeschool on

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Uncommon Lore Part 4: The Original Saxon Math Curriculum, MATH, a firm foundation to build a Homeschool on… (PDF File for Printing) If you are a parent to an elementary student in public school, chances are you have heard one of these terms to describe Current Math Curriculums: New Math Reform Math New “New” Math Dumb … Read more

Uncommon Lore: The Unschooling Seduction

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Uncommon Lore: The Unschooling Seduction When I was pregnant with my third child in 1993 I was happily teaching childbirth classes in my home, attending an occasional birth as Doula, breastfeeding Allison during my pregnancy, and very involved in my ward at church; serving as a visiting teacher and singing in the choir as well … Read more

Uncommon Lore: The Beginning

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Click HERE for a printable PDF of this Post When I was expecting our oldest daughter Michelle in 1988 I read a book called Anything School Can Do You Can Do Better by a Mother of 13 children. The mother in the biography used the Montessori philosophy in her home to teach her own children. … Read more

Uncommon Lore: Introduction

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Download a PDF of this Essay HERE for printing So today, I am minding my own beeswax comfortably blogging about soccer and social networking about other “safe” topics like islamic terrorism when out of the blue I feel this overwhelming impression from Heavenly Father that he wants me to do a “From the HOMESCHOOLING Trenches” … Read more

Outside the Beltway: Writers complaign that bloggers have democratized writing, an this is wut I have to say bout that…

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Uh, We Blogers Are Rilly good at Spelin’, syntax, Grammer, and Exprissin’ r selves. Uh don’t unnerstand wut all the fuss is bout… Communicatin’ is now open to all the people of the world, who have ever had a thought worth expressin…. and WHO never really, actually, um (Pausin’ to scratch Head)… had a chance … Read more

Mormon Mom Blogger responds to Harold Bloom who dumps on the Church I Love

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NYT: Will This Election Be the Mormon Breakthrough?  In this article Bloom dumps on the Latter Day Saints as well as the Tea Party, so for me it was a double whammy… “Rather than living in reality they yield to what oddly are termed “cultural” considerations: moral and spiritual, or so their leaders urge them … Read more

Carry on, Carry on, Carry on…

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Paul started work yesterday, the boys resumed seminary and school today, and my daughters fly back to Utah on friday. Ben came up to me yesterday and requested that we begin his second semester of Home Schooled third grade because Dad was going to be busy with work and would not be able to “keep … Read more

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