By Gary North The Ron Paul Curriculum is a self-taught curriculum. Parents whose children are above the second grade are asked only to read weekly essays. The weekly essays are central to the curriculum. The courses are structured in a 4/1 sequence: four days of new...
By Gary North. The latest Gallup poll indicates that about a third of the public is favorable, a third is not, and a third have no opinion. This indicates declining support since last April. The very negative public is rising: 13% to 18%. The very positive public is...
By Gary North Drudge keeps running stories published by an obscure Oklahoma website. It keeps running photos on the healthful lunches offered to students, which the students refuse to eat. I can understand why they will not eat them. There is an easy solution: mother...
Gary North The three limits of formal education apply to all forms of education. They apply especially to any formal education which grants certificates of completion. It is because of these limits that the public schools will ultimately be abandoned. These three...
By Gary North The Ron Paul Curriculum has age-grading from kindergarten through 8th grade. Why? Marketing. Parents want this. That doesn’t mean that I can’t try to change your mind. Age-grading is a bad idea. It was imported from Prussia in 1848. It was...
By Ron Paul, October 04, 2014 Homechooling parents may initially be concerned about their children’s academic futures. Will colleges discriminate against them? The evidence indicates that they won’t. These days, fewer students are enrolling in college. This is true...
By Gary North, September 27, 2014 There is a lot of concern among parents regarding the Common Core curriculum. I am not concerned in the slightest. But, then again, all of my children are in their 30’s. The Common Core curriculum was imposed on a lot of...
Gary North, August 28, 2014 Most economists assign a textbook. I do, too: Bob Murphy’s. I also assign his teacher’s study guide. Both are free to download. I described this here....
By Ron Paul, April 5, 2014. Central planning by the state does not work. This is why the Common Core Curriculum is doomed. It’s too rigorous academically for career-track students, and not rigorous enough for top students headed for college. The program is...
Published on Oct 24, 2013 Glenn Beck and Ron Paul talk about Homeschooling and Paul’s book The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System.
By Ron Paul, September 10, 2013 Opposing infringement on parental control of education and promoting alternatives to government-run schools is a vital task for the liberty movement. When government usurps a parent’s right to control their child’s education, it is...
by Ron Paul, May 27, 2013 In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called “conservative” Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over...
by Ron Paul, April 8, 2013. A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of “unapproved”...
