{"id":5661,"date":"2005-10-28T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2005-10-28T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T20:10:08","slug":"plus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"PLUS 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paper from UNC- Chapel Hill has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2005\/10\/28\/4361aeb46087c\">nice piece<\/a> on home education.  It breaks no new ground but also doesn&#8217;t include the seemingly obligatory quotes from home education &#8220;experts.&#8221;  A couple of snippets&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Statistics from the N.C. Division of Non-Public Education estimate that in the 2004-05 school year, 58,780 students were home-schooled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not counting my four.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even ordinary household chores, such as cleaning out the refrigerator, can become learning opportunities. This week, one day\u2019s lesson plan included \u201crefrigerator science,\u201d where the twins examined food items underneath a microscope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We run that one on a regular basis.  Right now there&#8217;s a very interesting collection of moldy bread.  And, yes, the mold was intentionally grown to examine under the microscope.  Quit laughing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper from UNC- Chapel Hill has a nice piece on home education. It breaks no new ground but also doesn&#8217;t include the seemingly obligatory quotes from home education &#8220;experts.&#8221; A couple of snippets&#8211; Statistics from the N.C. Division of Non-Public Education estimate that in the 2004-05 school year, 58,780 students were home-schooled. Not counting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}