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Learning Curve

Radical “unschooling” moms are changing the stay-at-home landscape
Learning Curve
Article by Maya Schenwar, Illustrated by Aya Kakeda, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged children, education, homeschooling, radical parenting.

Not long ago, homeschooling was thought of as the domain of hippie earth mothers letting their kids “do their own thing” or creationist Christians shielding their kids from monkey science and premarital sex. As recently as 1980, homeschooling was illegal in 30 states. Despite the fact that such figures as Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Day O’Connor, and, um, Jennifer Love Hewitt were products of a home education, the practice is still often seen as strange and even detrimental.

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Student Counsel

Talking Sense with The Education of Shelby Knox’s Creators and Star
An interview with Shelby Knox, Rose Rosen­blatt, Marion Lipschultz by Rebecca Onion, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged abstinence, education, religious right, Republican, sex, sex education, Shelby Knox, Sundance.

Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes, and that may be truest in the realm of sex-education controversy. Texas, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, has also been at the forefront of abstinence-only education in public schools since 1995, when then-governor George W. Bush signed the curriculum into law.

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