http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Joel+Turtel Education Joel Turtel Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=99280&ca=Education Millions of desperate parents today are appalled at the inferior education public schools give their kids, but think they have no where else to go. The good news is that busy working parents can now give their kids a private-school education at home using low-cost, accredited Internet private school... Society Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7251&ca=Society School authorities often complain that classes are too large. They claim that teachers can’t be expected to give their students the individual attention they need if there are too many students in the class. On the surface, this excuse seems to have some merit. Common sense tells us that in smaller... Parenting Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7255&ca=Parenting Past experience with federal education programs predicts that the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) will also fail parents whose children are doing poorly in school. The federal government has spent over $120 billion on Title 1 programs for low-income students since 1965. Yet the literacy rates for th... Parenting Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7249&ca=Parenting Many parents would like to homeschool their children but are afraid they don’t have the training or ability to be their children’s teacher. This is certainly understandable, because many parents never had any formal training to be a teacher. However, most parents don’t have to worry about this issue... Parenting Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7248&ca=Parenting Suppose that you rearrange your life to homeschool your child and the experiment fails? You may feel that you’ve disrupted your life and wasted a year of your child’s time. Your child may even be kept back a grade by the local public school. The answer to this concern is, can you risk not trying? Is... Society Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7258&ca=Society One reason public schools get away with educational failure, year after year, is because they are run by school officials who passionately believe in what they are doing. As the great English writer C. S. Lewis wrote, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may b... Society Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7257&ca=Society Public-school defenders often argue that school choice would destroy the public schools. Almost 90 percent of children in this country attend public schools. If we had vouchers, no compulsory attendance laws, and an unregulated education free market, millions of parents might transfer their children... Society Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7256&ca=Society Contrary to popular notions, teacher licensing in public schools does not insure teacher quality. A license also does not even insure that a public-school teacher is an expert in the subject she teaches. In fact, in our upside-down public-school system, licensing often leads to ill-trained and medio... Society Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7254&ca=Society If a store sells inferior products or a business gives bad service, most customers will not come back and that store or business will eventually go bankrupt. If public schools sell bad education, year after year, why don’t they go bankrupt? Why aren’t they shut down? The answer is government compuls... Society Joel Turtel Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=7253&ca=Society If more money meant better education for our kids, our public schools should have vastly improved over the last 75 years. Yet the reverse is true. In dollars adjusted for inflation, public schools spent about $876 per year for elementary and secondary school students in 1930, when student literacy r...