by Debi Ketron | Feb 20, 2017 | Common Core
Guest post by IAHE Government Affairs Team member, Lisa Yankey. The words “rigor” and “rigorous” have been educational marketing buzzwords for years. Politicians and public school educational reformers call for “more rigor” and “rigorous education.” What do these...
by Debi Ketron | Feb 18, 2017 | The IAHE
This blog post has been adapted from my testimony before the House Education Committee on February 16, 2017, as requested by the Committee Chair. On any given day, Indiana Association of Home Educators (IAHE) office staff and sixteen Regional Representatives across...
by Debi Ketron | Feb 11, 2017 | Homeschooling in Indiana
Were your children once enrolled in the public school system or a voucher-accepting school? When you read about the School to Prison Pipeline, did you realize your child’s school pushed your child into homeschooling? The School to Prison Pipeline testimony...
by Debi Ketron | Feb 8, 2017 | Research
By Dr. Brian Ray The Context Sadly, news stories, anecdotes, and some research regarding school teachers and other school personnel doing evil things to students and children have become common in the United States.[1], [2] News stories, government data, and research...
by Debi Ketron | Feb 2, 2017 | General
As IAHE listened to the Pre-K hearings at the Statehouse, advocates of institutional state-funded Pre-K seemed to believe the program needs to be expanded statewide for low-income families, so parents may work or go back to school. Do they consider the possibility...