http://bitchmagazine.org/tag/education The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://bitchmagazine.org/article/learning-curve <p>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. </p> <p><a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/article/learning-curve">read more</a></p> http://bitchmagazine.org/article/learning-curve#comments children education homeschooling On Education radical parenting Social commentary Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:01:46 -0500 Colin Sagan 234 at http://bitchmagazine.org http://bitchmagazine.org/article/student-counsel <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/article/student-counsel">read more</a></p> http://bitchmagazine.org/article/student-counsel#comments abstinence education Film On Film religious right Republican sex sex education Shelby Knox Sundance Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:00:00 -0400 Kyla 177 at http://bitchmagazine.org