Tori Beth Black – a home-schooled high school junior from Iva, S.C. – capped a busy weekend of competition in Indianapolis by earning an $18,000 college scholarship and first place in The American Legion High School Oratorical Scholarship Program – “A Constitutional Speech Contest.”...

If you think sex education is still about the birds and the bees, think again. As Dr. Miriam Grossman explains in her new book, it’s not about science either.  Today’s sex ed programs serve to perpetuate lies that promote the illusion that children can be sexually “free” without...

“It’s the low and battered places, edges bent and torn, hidden in the darkened woods— it’s there your spirit’s born.” Anne Buck, “Rain on a Flat Tin Roof” You find light in the darkness in the most unexpected places. For instance, a few weeks ago I wasn’t expecting that wisdom regarding...

(New York Times) — Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “Baby Einstein” videos that did not make children into geniuses. They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase...

I am a self-professing bookaholic. Call me crazy, but I LOVE the smell and feel of books. I love it the first time you open them and the binding crackles and you read that first introductory sentence. However, I also love old books and have collected several of them. I love them for the way they are...

Well into the throes of teaching writing and literature at Excelsior one day, a parent walked in between classes and asked me if I would be a guest speaker at the upcoming FACE (Forest Acres Christian Educators) meeting. “Uh … yeah … sure, I guess.” (Something like that came out of my...

I have been reading much about cathedrals lately. As a home schooling parent, I teach a segment of history each school year so that my children’s art, history, literature, music, writing, etc. all revolve around a specific time period. Right now, we are entrenched in the Middle Ages. Thus, the subject...