Articles by Linda Schrock Taylor

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The Whole-Word Cripplers

Linda Schrock Taylor on the criminals of reading.

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10/25/2004

The Decline of Saxon Math

Let's hope it's not the fall.

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9/15/2004

eBay, the Homeschooler’s Salvation

Linda Shrock Taylor on beating Saxon's angles.

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8/30/2004

Hands-On Learning

Linda Shrock Taylor on the welder in her closet.

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8/23/2004

The New Math Is the Old Ignorance

Linda Schrock Taylor on the effects of fuzzy innumeracy.

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8/16/2004

Small Schools + Local Control

Linda Schrock Taylor on a winning combination.

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7/12/2004

All Hail Amazon.com

Especially after my experience with Borders, says Linda Schrock Taylor.

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7/9/2004

Lessons by the Yard

The school yard.

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7/5/2004

The Feds Filched Our One-Room Schools

Linda Schrock Taylor on centralization.

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6/28/2004

Dulling the Cutting Edge

Linda Schrock Taylor on doomed public schools.

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6/19/2004

Please Stop Talking About WWII

Linda Schrock Taylor on the legacy of one war in one family.

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5/31/2004

Mutiny!

Against the government schools.

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4/26/2004

Rothbard and Car Auctions

Linda Schrock Taylor on applied economics.

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4/21/2004

Boys Will Be Boys

But not if the government schools have anything to say about it. Article by Linda Schrock Taylor.

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4/13/2004

The Angel of Learning

Versus the demon of government schooling.

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4/10/2004

G-Strings and Baggy Pants

Linda Schrock Taylor on the public schools' youth culture.

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3/15/2004

Remediation in the Public Schools

Linda Schrock Taylor on another government joke.

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3/1/2004

Two-Year-Olds Raising Two-Year-Olds

Linda Schrock Taylor on parenting in the federalized USA.

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2/16/2004

Learning Disabled?

Or teaching disabled?

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2/3/2004

Better Than Money

Draining the special-ed swamp.

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1/26/2004

Tanstaafl Teaching

Kids can learn, despite the government, says Linda Schrock Taylor.

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1/21/2004

A Lever Here, a Punch There, Maybe a Chad or Two

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1/12/2004

To Vote, Or Not To Vote

That is the question, says Linda Schrock Taylor.

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1/5/2004

Keep Their Toes to the Fire

Linda Schrock Taylor on how to do it.

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12/29/2003

The Rotten Census

Linda Schrock Taylor on the outrageous teachers' version.

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12/15/2003

Dealing With Bad Teachers

Practical advice from Linda Schrock Taylor.

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12/8/2003

Snakes and Government

Are you as terrified and powerless as they want you to be?

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12/1/2003

No Thanks!

Linda Schrock Taylor will take the classroom over politics any day.

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11/27/2003

Come On, Parents

Linda Schrock Taylor on the use and misuse of textbooks.

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11/24/2003

Why Teachers Can’t Teach

Linda Schrock Taylor on how they're not taught.

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11/17/2003

Letter to Mehlman

Linda Schrock Taylor on Bush-Cheney '04.

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11/13/2003

Well, Shut My Mouth

Oh, don't they wish!

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11/10/2003

What It Means To Be a Teacher

And why there are so few of them in the public schools.

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11/6/2003

‘School Improvement Committees’

Yeah, sure, right. Article by Linda Schrock Taylor.

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11/3/2003

Award-Winning Edu-Speak

Linda Schrock Taylor on another argument for homeschooling.

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10/27/2003

All-Night Lock-Ins

The public schools teach sex.

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10/20/2003

The Color of Money

What off-center, peach-colored currency tells us about our freedom.

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10/13/2003

Padded Cells

Linda Schrock Taylor on the latest innovation from the public schools.

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9/29/2003

Double-Dipping, Revisited

Linda Schrock Taylor on another way the government schools rip us off.

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9/17/2003

You’re Calling From India?

And you want all my personal info?

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9/8/2003

Ready…Set…Homeschool!

Linda Schrock Taylor on keeping your children out of the public schools.

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8/27/2003

Stick to Books

Linda Schrock Taylor says forget CD-based homeschooling.

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8/18/2003

How I Wised Up

Linda Schrock Taylor on discovering John Taylor Gatto.

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8/11/2003

Faking Competency

Linda Schrock Taylor on the public schools.

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8/4/2003

They Can’t Keep Track of Their Pencils

So the state is giving every kid a PDA or laptop.

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8/1/2003

Public School Blockheads

A peek into their mentality from Linda Schrock Taylor.

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7/28/2003

Born a Hundred Years Too Late

Linda Schrock Taylor on children's literature.

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7/21/2003

The Writing’s on the School Wall

Too bad so few can read it.

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7/14/2003

Word-Guessing Illiterates

Linda Schrock Taylor on what the public schools turn out, and what you can do about it with phonics.

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7/7/2003

Individual Power

Linda Schrock Taylor on opposing centers of government indoctrination.

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7/4/2003