by CHEWV | Jan 30, 2016 | Articles, Assessments, Blog, Testing
It can be tempting to think that a test will accurately assess how we are doing as teachers and how our children are doing as students. But it can do neither. Standardized testing is only a tool to determine how our children compare academically with other students...
by Melody Sheppard | Oct 7, 2015 | Articles, News
When Les Payton returned home to West Virginia after retiring from the Marine Corps earlier this year, he wasn’t expecting a red-tape parade—but that is what he got. When the 27-year veteran helicopter pilot trooped into the Raleigh County School District office to...
by CHEWV | Sep 5, 2015 | Articles, Assessments, Early Education, Pre-school
Rethinking Preschool, Kindergarten & a Push for Homeschool Testing How wonderful – and overwhelming – it can be to figure out what’s best for our littles! We can lose sight (or want to lose sight) of the fact that parenting is a full-time endeavor....
by CHEWV | Apr 5, 2015 | Articles, Considering Homeschooling, Struggling Learners
As told to CHEWV. We homeschooled our first two children in Maryland and things were going along well. But about the time that our second child was entering kindergarten, we became concerned that something wasn’t quite right with our toddler. At 2 1/2, he wasn’t...
by CHEWV | Feb 7, 2015 | Articles, High School
Homeschooling the High Schooler? We’ve all seen the car commercial. An extremely expensive car goes zooming up a mountain at a high rate of speed, and across the bottom of our screen flashes the message, “professional driver- don’t try this at home.” The world would...
by Melody Sheppard | Feb 4, 2015 | Articles, High School
In recent years, homeschooling has seen a rise in popularity, with more and more parents deciding to educate their children not at a traditional school but at home, typically with a parent as instructor. But just like traditional classrooms, homeschool doesn’t last...
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