Survey: Homeschoolers new political force It makes sense that homeschooling turns out better students … after all, consider it in these terms: does a student who can afford a private tutor fare better academically than a kid in a crowded classroom? But what major critics of homeschooling argue is that the kids don’t end up […]

Reading problems in children linked to TV Kids who watch a lot of TV have a harder time learning to read. That’s the upshot of a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. This should be self-evident, but what the heck. Every nagging reminder helps. The report doesn’t say TV is all bad, though, and […]

First Visit to the Midwives for Little Sofia or Little Gabriel This afternoon Kristen, David and I went up to Dartmouth-Hitchcock to for Kristen’s first prenatal checkup. We visited with one of the midwives and she gave us our due date – May 22 – just as Kristen had calculated. The new baby is about […]

How Prayers Poll – Myths About Religion and Politics Slate’s Steven Waldman looks at some commonly held misconceptions about how the religious vote, how they identify themselves, and in what party exactly we might find religious “extremists.”