Homeschooling gives parents the opportunity to teach their children the worth of every person. It is easy, even for parents, to consider the gifts of one child as more acceptable than the gifts of another child. Every person deserves respect--those who take care of our teeth, those who take care of ... View Post

To make sense of history -- whether world history or American history -- we must begin in two places: the Garden of Eden and Calvary. Yesterday I worked on an ending for a lesson about the Civil War in our new update of America the Beautiful for grades 5-8. In the list of the most stressful jobs ... View Post

When pioneers traveled west on the Oregon Trail, they looked forward to seeing landmarks they had heard about before they went, places such as Scotts Bluff in Nebraska . . . . . . and Soda Springs in Idaho. Soda Springs has geothermal features similar to Yellowstone. Travelers on the Oregon ... View Post