The “Choice” Charade – Part 5

The Threat to Homeschooling A 3D Research Report [This 5-part report was authored by Sarah H. Leslie of the Iowa Research Group, Inc. circa 2000-2003 as part of an effort to warn the nation’s homeschoolers of a newly forming false “choice” initiative in education reform. The state of Ohio was ground zero for this new […]

The “Choice” Charade – Part 4

The Threat to Homeschooling A 3D Research Report [This 5-part report was authored by Sarah H. Leslie of the Iowa Research Group, Inc. circa 2000-2003 as part of an effort to warn the nation’s homeschoolers of a newly forming false “choice” initiative in education reform. The state of Ohio was ground zero for this new […]

The “Choice” Charade – Part 3

The Threat to Homeschooling A 3D Research Report [This 5-part report was authored by Sarah H. Leslie of the Iowa Research Group, Inc. circa 2000-2003 as part of an effort to warn the nation’s homeschoolers of a newly forming false “choice” initiative in education reform. The state of Ohio was ground zero for this new […]

The “Choice” Charade – Part 2

The Threat to Homeschooling A 3D Research Report [This 5-part report was authored by Sarah H. Leslie of the Iowa Research Group, Inc. circa 2000-2003 as part of an effort to warn the nation’s homeschoolers of a newly forming false “choice” initiative in education reform. The state of Ohio was ground zero for this new […]

The “Choice” Charade

The Threat to Homeschooling A 3D Research Report1 [This 5-part report was authored by Sarah H. Leslie of the Iowa Research Group, Inc. circa 2000-2003 as part of an effort to warn the nation’s homeschoolers of a newly forming false “choice” initiative in education reform. The state of Ohio was ground zero for this new […]

“Science Falsely So Called”

By Stephen Rea, with Sarah H. Leslie This article was written in 2003 before a conference in Texas, detailing the story of an important court case on education reform. At the conference Steve was able to share this abstract and his religious convictions about these issues. In 1998 I won a landmark education case, State ex […]

RESURRECTING PAGAN RITES

This three-part article series ran in The Christian Conscience magazine in December 2005, January 2006 and February 2006. At this time period Ed Tarkowski had a very active Internet discernment loop where Christian discerners from around the world were communicating their concerns about popular new movements in the evangelical world, including the laughing “revival” and Promise Keepers. […]

THE GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER

Evangelical prayer initiatives have been going on for decades, and some of them have been high profile semi-civic events. In the summer of 2005 Susan J. Conway and I researched a new twist on this corporate form of prayer intercession. The Global Day of Prayer incorporated scripted prayers that were to be rehearsed in unison […]

FREDA & FANNY – A Pharisaical Farce

This article by Sarah Leslie and Melanie Fields was written during a time period when discernment and education researchers were coming under attacks by Internet critics who were rushing to judgment, spreading rumors, spreading gossip, mischaracterizing us, and publishing accounts about us that were not truthful. Melanie and I took some stories from our own […]

PEERING INTO THE PEERS

This article first appeared in the May, 1997 issue of The Christian Conscience magazine.  When we reviewed this test, which was being widely touted in the homeschooling community, we received special expertise from Steven Kossor, a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist in Pennsylvania. Cynthia Weatherly, an education consultant, gave us additional research assistance. As time went on […]