A new book by Laurie Block Spigel, Education Uncensored, takes readers through one mother's homeschooling journey to a career as a teacher of group homeschool classes and educational consultant in New York City. Education Uncensored is full of creative...

There is a Web site belonging to Hosting 24 that has a bot that steals content from homeschooling Web sites to post on its own page, just so it can pick up their search engine traffic. I apologize to my regular readers, but I am posting this to see if...

I wrote back in February about a new mailing list I had started for those whose children were attending college classes early in the San Francisco Bay area. Since then I have built a basic Web site for Families of Early College Students - Bay Area...

Last night we had a wonderful evening at San Francisco Symphony, courtesy of SF Art & Film for Teenagers, about which I have written here before. It was a great evening for strings, with a modern piece by Sallinen, the incredibly demanding Sibelius...

Miss C and I read Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" this week, in preparation for seeing a performance of it by the Globe Theatre Company next week at UC Berkeley. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a 1.5-hour lecture at Cal by Hugh Richmond,...