by Spencer Mason | Oct 12, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
12 Oct 2016 It’s 2016, and it is happening again. It has social media abuzz. Everyday people, as well as celebrities and international leaders, voice their opinions. It has actually been making the news headlines for more than a year. It is that once-every-four-year...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 2, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
2 Dec 2015 In recent years, homeschoolers have been receiving solicitations from a variety of online school programs. There are a number of online homeschools such as A Beka Academy, K12 Homeschool, Liberty University Online Academy and Keystone School Online. In...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 28, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
28 Oct 2015 In the spring of 1985, a significant victory took place in the long legal fight over home education in North Carolina. The North Carolina State Supreme Court ruled that under the current private school law, parents were allowed to educate their children at...
by Spencer Mason | Apr 1, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
1 Apr 2015 Three large multi-state outbreaks of measles in the US have prompted numerous articles about the need for children to be vaccinated. Many of the articles have been critical of parents who choose not to have their children immunized against measles, mumps...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 15, 2014 | Fall 2014, GREENHOUSE
15 Oct 2014 What Is Common Core? The Common Core State Standards is a set of standards defining the knowledge and skills that students pre-kindergarten through high school need to master each year to be prepared for the next grade and ultimately college or...