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The real financials of homeschooling
The most surprising thing about moving from NYC to Madison, WI is that after we moved, it felt like there was not actually anything to spend money on. For example, kids have their birthday partie...
Certifications ruin your resume but they’re great for your kids
Certification is messed up. People in their middle-age are most likely to pay for certification in a career-related skill. But kids are the ones who will most benefit from professional certificat...
No data correlates school success to life success. Literally. None.
The measurement for whether school is successful is — drumroll — if the kid does well in school. Think about it: You have never read research that says what kids do in school causes a person ...
School nostalgia: we all have it for something, even me
My grandma was a teacher with an open classroom and I went there when our school holidays did not coincide. Since her classroom was first through third grade I got to go there for a long time....
What it means that MIT won’t give up the SAT
My son is friends with a girl who grew up in the foster care system. Her mother left when she was a toddler. Then her dad died of a drug overdose. In front of her. We have known her only a short ...
https://education.penelopetrunk.com/2024/01/06/what-it-means-that-mit-wont-give-up-the-sat/
Primary school teaching is too hard to be a long-term job
Primary and secondary school teaching was never meant to be a real profession. Women used to take these jobs until they got married. You can see this during Children’s Blizzard, which happened ...
School doesn’t prepare girls for the power they already have
Women went to work outside the home to create a more equitable society. But the more equitable a society is the more clearly women want labor divided by gender. Where are we today? In a study in ...
Schools can’t teach social skills; you can teach workarounds
There is still no treatment for social skills in school-aged kids that is approved by the FDA because there is no evidence that the treatments kid get in school make a difference long term. Schoo...