Map & Produce » Homeschool http://noel.weichbrodt.org A young .NET software engineer cog in the St. Louis military-industrial complex avoiding the alienation of the worker from his work by any means necessary... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:33:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Homeschooling & Higher Education: Hard Data and Open Source Theory http://noel.weichbrodt.org/homeschooling-higher-education-hard-data-and-open-source-theory/ http://noel.weichbrodt.org/homeschooling-higher-education-hard-data-and-open-source-theory/#comments Tue, 31 May 2005 23:40:49 +0000 noel http://www.noel.weichbrodt.org/homeschooling-higher-education-hard-data-and-open-source-theory/ I talked to my dad the other night for Mother’s Day. He had dinner that weekend with a professor from LeTourneau University. My dad, ever the burgenoning educrat, asked one of his favorite questions: “how can you prepare your kid to succeed in college?” The professor’s answer was to focus on two things: science and reading. Additionally, he said, you should homeschool.

They did a survey last year that measured the relationship between the need for remedial math & english, and the type of high school attended. The rough numbers were: 60% of public school students required remedial courses, 30% of private school students, and 4% of home school students.

Ted Leung and his wife Julie are the two home school advocate on my blog radar. Ted even draws similarities between open source and homeschooling. Interesting. I confess that I do indeed have designs to teach my kids Squeak or Logo when the reach “a certain age of maturity”, to quote Issac Hayes.

[Update: spelling & grammar. Doh. Thanks, wife.]

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