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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I Fatima Siddiqui always knew she wanted to home-school her kids. They’re average.”.

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

The Hechinger Report

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. ” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Her qualification to be Secretary of Education?