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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years ago
Kindergarten isn’t mandatory in Indiana, but almost all children in Indiana already begin kindergarten at age 5. It is so common to start school at age 5 that most people assume that kindergarten is mandatory w […]
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Debi Ketron commented on the post, IAHE Action Letter to State Board of Education Regarding Diploma Changes 8 years ago
Homeschoolers typically start before seven, but they do not like the government telling them they should. They believe a parent knows what is best for their child instead of the government. If the age is lowered, recording keeping begins and more pressure is put on a child who may not be ready.
Here are some interesting links:
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 1 month ago
IAHE Action has monitored the work of the Graduation Pathways Panel. In 2015, there were efforts to update diploma requirements which were later abandoned after pushback from the special needs community. IAHE had […]
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Debi Ketron commented on the post, As We Were Saying 8 years, 1 month ago
Thank you for your encouraging words.
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 3 months ago
In the past week, the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Jennifer McCormick, has called for legislation during the 2018 session of the Indiana General Assembly to lower the compulsory school age to […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 7 months ago
HEA 1384 Various Education Matters
Representative Robert Behning (R – Indianapolis)
This session, IAHE was asked to testify in the House and the Senate in regards to the “push out” problem where the publi […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 10 months ago
This research from National Home Education Research Institute was commissioned to provide to elected officials for Indiana Association of Home Educators’ Home School Day at the Capitol. We understand there were […]
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This report is a thing of beauty!
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 10 months ago
IAHE Action believes this piece is very important for all faith-based homeschoolers to read. It is from a speech delivered by HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris at the Christian Home Educators of Ohio conference on […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 10 months ago
Our friends at Nevada Homeschool Network were forced to aggressively defend their homeschool law in 2015 when School Choice advocates attempted to use it as the vehicle for Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 8 years, 10 months ago
IAHE Action has heard from parents with children in Indiana voucher-accepting schools that they have seen negative consequences of vouchers. We asked these parents to share their observations as a warning to […]
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Debi Ketron commented on the post, Testing, Assessments, Standards, Teaching Machines…The Science of Creating Obedient Citizens. Behavioral Science. Part 1 9 years ago
Thanks for sharing your insight, Debbie. It’s nice to have a professional teacher confirm it.
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 9 years ago
We were able to bring balance to the Indiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights draft School to Prison Pipeline report. Homeschooling is discussed beginning on page 30 under “3. […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 9 years ago
This is part five of a five-part series. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
5. We’re going to tell ourselves that ESAs won’t affect us if we don’t take them.
What if you decide that you don’t wan […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago
This post is the first of a five-part series. NOTE: Although we do not encourage homeschoolers to use the public school for special needs assistance, we realize that some may due to expense. We have learned that […]
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Debi Ketron commented on the post, Maintaining the Integrity of Home Education 9 years, 2 months ago
Jen, I’d recommend asking Dr. Brian Ray at National Home Education Research Institute. He may have studied it. We do know funding is a way to draw people back into the public system. http://www.nheri.org
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Debi Ketron changed their profile picture 9 years, 3 months ago
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 9 years, 4 months ago
IAHE Action has been concerned about “personalized learning” and data collection since we came to understand its relationship to Common Core. Conservative Review has an excellent article by Emmett McGroarty and […]
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Debi Ketron wrote a new post 9 years, 4 months ago
IAHE Action has been concerned about “personalized learning” and data collection since we came to understand its relationship to Common Core. Conservative Review has an excellent article by Emmett McGroarty and […]
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Debi Ketron commented on the post, IAHE Action’s School to Prison Pipeline Response – Part 2 9 years, 6 months ago
Thank you for your efforts, Tracey, to continually remind people as to where the problem and solution to this problem can be found…the public school.
IAHE sees the same thing with our numbers. Due to commercial convention competition, we had to cut our expenses. At that time IAHE was mailing The Informer and other print mailings to 18,500.…[Read more]
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Debi Ketron commented on the post, IAHE Action’s School to Prison Pipeline Response – Part 8 9 years, 6 months ago
Agreed. Thank you for sharing your perspective, Melinda.
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