Homeschooling and special needs: do they mix? Every child is unique and deserves high-quality education tailored to their needs. Homeschooling is a great way to give them that. But what if your child has needs that are a little more “special?” Does that bar you from homeschooling? On the podcast today, Melvin is talking
What’s the deal with Social Emotional Learning? Is it helpful or harmful? As a father himself, Alvin Lui has a personal stake in the fight against childrens’ indoctrination. That’s why he created Courage Is A Habit, which has a goal to expose the dangers of SEL, or Social Emotional Learning. In today’s episode, he
Social Emotional Learning has crept into our schools, almost unnoticed. Is that good? Bad? Our guest today has some answers. Has your child taken a survey in school that touched on inappropriate topics? Have they come across vulgar books in their school library? LGBTQ and Critical Race Theory talking points are everywhere in schools
Have you ever wondered how NWEF got started? Today is Noah Webster Educational Foundation’s second birthday. In honor of that, we’re excited to have our host, Melvin Adams, switch seats and share his own story this week! Our content manager, Catherine, joins him on the show this week to ask questions about Melvin’s life
Today we’re finishing up our discussion with Sherri Story and Cheryl Facciani, who are uniting school board members with their new alliance. Some school board members don’t even know that they have decision-making power. Why is that? On today’s episode, Sherri Story and Cheryl Facciani give us an answer to that question. They believe
Did you know that one school board association has monopolized Virginia for the past 116 years? Well, a group of people decided that should change. Today on The State of Education, Melvin talks to Sherri Story and Cheryl Facciani, who are part of the team behind Virginia’s new School Board Member Alliance. Sherri and
Listen in on part two of our conversation with Veronica Gemma! Are America’s school boards too far gone? Are we fighting a losing battle? Veronica Gemma has faced it all: discouragement, accusations, and pushback from her community and local school board colleagues. But she wanted transparency, so she decided to step up and challenge
Parental involvement is important in education—we can all agree on that. But does it have any perceptible impact in the here-and-now? Veronica Gemma is here to tell you that it does! Veronica is a woman who had no previous experience in the realm of education before becoming a member of her local school board.
Rural schools are often tiny—sometimes with only a dozen students per school—but they produce some of the most brilliant kids in America. Do small classrooms and close-knit communities offer something big public schools could never offer? Our guest today, Robert Mitchell, is a rural school teacher and college professor. In his small Colorado school,
Are accessible school choice options actually practical? Or, for that matter, even possible? Jenny Clark is—first and foremost—a mom. But she’s also the founder of Love Your School, a non-profit in Arizona that empowers parents and educators to make choices about the education plan that works for them and their kids. Today on The
