So I started here: the weekly Stuff We Like post on the home.school.life blog that I recently added to my blog list (see the Mom's Reading List tab above).
That linked to an article in The Atlantic about rich parents contributing financially to their children's public schools, therefore exacerbating the divide between rich and poor school districts. That was okay - not really something I pay much attention to - but there were a bunch more articles at the bottom of the page.
And what's this? An article about Harvard teaching history in a new way? My college degree is in history ... I wonder what they're saying.
In a random aside mentioned briefly in the Harvard article, I found my gold mine: Stanford's Reading Like a Historian middle and high school lesson plans. The sky opens, a pillar of light comes down, and choirs of angels are singing.
My daughters, in a couple more years, aren't going to know what hit them. And I think I'm going to redo my own history degree, homeschool style. This is going to be SO. COOL.
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