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Homeschool Changes for New Year

Change if…. *your homeschool feels stagnant. *your curriculum is not working out for your family. *your schedule is causing too much stress for you or your children. *you have a child who is struggling. *you have a child who is advancing faster than his curriculum will allow. *your homeschool is not defined by love, laughter, [...]

Five Homers Help USA Softball Run-Rule Puerto Rico, Finish Pool Play Undefeated

CAPE TOWN — Four 2011 USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team athletes combined for five home runs Wednesday at the 2011 International Softball Federation (ISF) Junior Women’s World Championships in Cape Town, South Africa, helping the United States run-rule Puerto Rico 12-3 in five innings. With the win, Team USA secured the No. 1 seed [...]

Use of calculators in primary schools ‘could be curbed’

Children may be denied access to electronic gadgets in all but the last few years of primary education in an attempt to boost standards of mental arithmetic, it has emerged. The move follows concerns that exposure to calculators at a young age undermines children’s ability to perform simple sums in their heads. Nick Gibb, the [...]

PVUSD appeals ruling on vacant land

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District has appealed a trial court ruling that effectively prevented the district from selling two valuable undeveloped properties in a residential neighborhood of Palos Verdes Estates. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled in September that a deed restriction on the two adjacent properties – known as Lots C [...]