One Smart Mama

• You Who Are Weary, Come Home
  "I wonder if it is not the greatest shame in human history that contemporary man has turned its back on the household as an obstacle to success." - Andrew Kern
  
• Cursive Disappearing from Students' Writing Skills
  The question may not be, is it necessary? but rather, what other skills does it foster?
  
• 10 Ways You and Your Church Can Be Involved in Adoption and Orphan Care
  Ligonier Ministries urges Christians not to ask "whether?" but "how?"
  
• When Good Words Become the Enemy
  Deborah Meier talks about the need to define our terms when we talk about education.
  
• Behaving Like Children
  From Schools Matter: this post's irony invites us to go back to a model of learning that is rigorous but based on children's natural stages and is not in opposition to childhood.
  
• The Art of Rhetoric
  Taking another look at this misunderstood form of learning, from the CiRCE Institute.