The Luv Doc: Home schooling

As Confucius says, “There is more than one way to skin a cat.”

"...youngest brother's wife is telling us she intends to home-school their two children even though they live in a..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Election

"...which so many other high-school-experience films seem to topple. Home schooling never looked so good...."

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

This sequel is a model of the martial arts movie form.

"...has set up shop in his new Hong Kong home. Literally. At one point, accompanied by his wife's stern-but-supportive..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Virtually Unkillable: TEA to Resurrect Online Charters

Supporters of 'virtual schools' never say die

"...Texas proponents of "virtual charter" schools -- Web-based, generally home-schooled substitutes for classroom education. When the Texas Education Agency..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Not One Less

"...who still face the deprivations of poverty and inadequate schooling. In many ways, Not One Less resembles the socialist-realist..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reclaiming Education: Hoping for Sanity at the SBOE

Will it take a miracle to oust the religious right bloc?

"...law firm. Tuggey says he's "adamantly committed to public schooling," and his wife is an Austin Independent School District..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Bill of the Week: Bracing for a School Choice Battle

Senate Bill 176 would create "parental empowerment accounts"

"...public education funding to pay for private, parochial, and at-home schooling. The usual rhythm is: Advocates get traction in..."

Feb. 24, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Everything, Everything

Another YA adaption of star-crossed lovers

"...her from leaving her mother’s airlocked, spick-and-span Los Angeles home for as long as she can remember. Maddy, bookworm..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Mathematics prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan is the subject of this biopic

"...(Irons). Although the young Tamil man received some formal schooling, his mathematical abilities were self-taught, or as he later..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

A standout, a gross-out comedy that makes its audience go "awwww" as much as it goes "ewwww."

"...Andy’s fumbling attempts to finally get in the game. Schooling Andy in their crude brand of seduction – Lesson..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...I looked up one day and realized I'd been homesick every day I was in northern California, I was..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Wild Child to Sir Woman, Kelsey Wilson Is Taking the High Road

The laid-back ringleader reinvents Wild Child and forges a new path with Sir Woman

"...lightness on stage," notes Beggins. "She feels very at home in front of a big audience now. I see..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Austin ISD Leans in to Win Back Families, Boost Enrollment

Every student counts

"...year, she's spent time reaching out to families, doing home visits, delivering iPads to students without devices to use..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Direct Hit

Why are Tupperware-style home parties where children’s books are sold putting booksellers on the defensive?

"...titles in bookstores and sell the same titles through home parties have ended up antagonizing booksellers, though the publishers..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Can Architecture Provide a Blueprint for Our Post-COVID Existence?

Forge Craft Architecture's COVID Companion is a field guide to the world of the Aftertimes

"...job. When they're hired to create a building or home or development, it isn't just about coming up with..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Saturday Picks and Sleepers

Saturday night SXSW blurbs

"...out of Chile in the late Nineties. Beloved at home, and working on their fifth album, it's acts like..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

The Schoolfield Of Hard Knocks

"...to enrolling his children at Hyde Park, Schoolfield's wife home-schooled the children -- with his help, he claims --..."

March 24, 2000 News Feature by Suzy Spencer

Day Trips

Hard work is its own reward at Brazos de Dios, a community north of Waco.

"...forest of the fertile river valley, the community's small Homestead Heritage Crafts Village of shops and workshops welcomes visitors..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...coincidentally, environmental and conservation services employees -- were sent home Monday and Tuesday because the fumes from a fungicide..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature

Album Review: White Denim, 12

Onetime Austinite conjures Seventies garage rock on dozenth LP

"...31, 2020: “I am sheltering with my family at home [in Austin]. I have a wife and two children,..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Opinion: Where Did the Money Go?

Rep. Vikki Goodwin questions why more than $5 billion in federal funds intended to help students has been diverted into the state coffers

"...has wreaked havoc with attendance. Some students have stayed home out of health concerns, while others have left the..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Column by Vikki Goodwin

Council Wrap: Not Quite Midnight

Council tweaks youth curfew, promotes greenwater, frees lemonade

"...students, various youth advocacy organizations, and even spokespeople for home-schooling organizations who fear their students might get caught up..."

June 19, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Lege Goes to School: Education Bills

"..."Tim Tebow" bill, a long-pushed pet project of the home-schooling movement, to allow home-schooled kids to compete in University..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows

Austin Music Awards Director Margaret Moser goes out with a bang

"...headliners. In a year where Stevie Ray Vaughan took home top honors for his debut Texas Flood; Butch Hancock..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Melissa Sconyers

Face of the Future?

"...purchases online, Sconyers is about to graduate, after being home schooled since seventh grade, when she moved to Austin..."

March 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Justice's Closet Case

A "Deeper Faith"

"...a Corpus Christi physician who performed abortions. In a home-schooling case from 1994, Gonzalez was the only justice to..."

May 16, 1997 News Feature by Bob Elder

The Eugenic Circus Comes to Town

A Downtown hotel is hosting a natalist, eugenics-aligned conference in December. Why Austin?

"...Peachy Keenan, is an anti-woke activist and proponent of home-schooling. Keenan's recent book Domestic Extremist includes chapters titled "Babies..."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Has Round Rock ISD Hit Rock Bottom?

Maybe not yet

"...switch our children to charter schools, private schools, or home schooling. They're going to bring all the power, people,..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Other Four Candidates for Senate District 14

More and merry candidates join the fun

"...that seems less a campaign than an exercise in home-schooling...."

July 10, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Jeb! Trains His Energy on Mastery

Please clap for Bush’s ambitious yet familiar SXSW EDU pitch

"...education reporter Laura Meckler about the future of K-12 schooling, which the presidential also-ran thinks is a “mastery-based system..."

March 5, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

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