Archive for July, 2009

In Memoriam: Ned Vare

Posted by Ann Zeise on July 28, 2009    Category: Homeschool History     ·Tagged , , , .

It is with great sadness that we inform our supporters that a great friend and homeschool freedom champion, Ned Vare, has died.   Ned was a fearless fighter for educational freedom. I first met him in 1990 when he was in the forefront of the effort to defeat government regulation of homeschooling in Connecticut.  He was [...]

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Bowe R. Bergdahl, U.S. soldier captured by Taliban in Afghanistan, was homeschooled

Posted by Ann Zeise on July 20, 2009    Category: Concerns     ·Tagged , , , , .

Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, a local family’s only son who was homeschooled, danced at the ballet school and rode his bike all over the town of 7,000, was in the hands of the Taliban.

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Books, Google and the Future of Digital Print

Posted by Ann Zeise on July 8, 2009    Category: Events     ·Tagged , , , .

The Computer History Museum Presents Books, Google and the Future of Digital Print An evening with Dan Clancy, Google Books in conversation with John Hollar, CHM Books have always played a central role in the evolution and propagation of human culture and knowledge. The topic of digitizing books, in particular, is of special interest to [...]

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