{"id":5072,"date":"2005-06-08T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2005-06-08T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T16:37:57","slug":"home-ed-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5072","title":{"rendered":"HOME ED SPORTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hal from NCHE points out a nice <i>USAToday<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/preps\/2005-06-07-home-school-cover_x.htm\">piece<\/a> on how HEKs are excelling in athletics.  A nice quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Home schooling is an especially good educational strategy for children with exceptional talents,&#8221; says Mitchell Stevens, associate professor of education and sociology at New York University and author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Home-schooling Movement, a look at the social history of home schooling. &#8220;Parents can organize learning around the passions and skills of their children.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;d argue that it&#8217;s exceptionally good for just about <i>every<\/i> child.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: OTOH, this quote is typical Rob Reich:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is valid moral criticism of parents who endanger their children&#8217;s academic and employment futures in their quest for athletic stardom,&#8221; Stanford political scientist Rob Reich says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hal from NCHE points out a nice USAToday piece on how HEKs are excelling in athletics. A nice quote: &#8220;Home schooling is an especially good educational strategy for children with exceptional talents,&#8221; says Mitchell Stevens, associate professor of education and sociology at New York University and author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in [&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":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}