by Debi Ketron | Apr 21, 2014 | Common Core
By Camille Cantwell, IAHE Legislative Team member Last Thursday Debi Ketron and I, as IAHE Legislative Team members, were invited to a meeting with several top staffers in the Governor’s Office to talk about the latest draft of the Indiana Education standards. Because...
by Debi Ketron | Apr 15, 2014 | Common Core
IAHE received this from the Governor’s office: Friends, The Indiana Department of Education (DOE) and Center for Education and Career Innovation (CECI) today released the final draft of proposed academic standards for Math and English/Language Arts that will...
by Carol Carpenter | Mar 25, 2014 | Child Training, Competition, IAHE Convention, Parenting & Family
The whole world is about competition. From backyard races to the Olympics, 4-H projects to corporate promotions, sports to scholarships, and from music contests to family room Monopoly games, competition is everywhere. Competition drives a free economy. And even...
by Debi Ketron | Mar 19, 2014 | General
This is Big News: The Homeschooled More Politically Tolerant? New research on political intolerance will likely surprise many people, especially negative critics of parent-led home-based education. . . . . We at IAHE believe in the work of NHERI.org and Dr. Brian Ray....
by Debi Ketron | Mar 10, 2014 | General
IAHE is pleased to announce that we now have a complete Board of Directors! Dan and Shawn King have been serving as Region 9 Representatives and have agreed to join the Board. Dan and Shawn live in Clinton, Indiana, with their four children, Danny (15), Abbie (13),...
by Debi Ketron | Mar 9, 2014 | Common Core
As many of you have observed, there is little difference between the Common Core and the “new” Indiana Standards. We’ve been anticipating Hoosiers Against Common Core’s comparison of the two sets. It is disappointing to see that Common Core...
by Debi Ketron | Mar 7, 2014 | Common Core
Home educators are concerned about the Common Core because it’s an attempt to nationalize education. We are troubled by what we’ve observed in the process of developing “new” Indiana standards that look very similar to the “old”...
by Debi Ketron | Feb 27, 2014 | General
IAHE and HSLDA oppose vouchers for home schools due to the attached strings. We believe it’s very important that homeschoolers understand the reasons why this “school choice” option is not helpful to our movement. Dawn Kazmierzak’s blog...