School of Smock
by Jessica Smock, Ed.D.
I'm so honored to be a part of the first edition of the Carnival of Evidence-Based Parenting! This week Alice Callahan of the Science of Mom is hosting. She has a terrific explanation of blog …
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For the second installment of Experts Unplugged, I spoke with Jennifer Lois, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Washington University, about homeschooling and parenting. For almost a …
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"The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself" (p. 253) in Susan Cain's Quiet: The …
As a teacher, I thought homeschooling was for crazy, overcontrolling parents and for religious extremists. My only exposure to homeschooling had been during childhood through religious …
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