links for 3-2-11

An alarming exchange at an Illinois meeting on registering  homeschoolers and the eagerness of truancy police to invade family choices for education.

And this article on police who are worried about gangs and want a city-wide ban on young people during the daytime, a sterile but efficient environment if you like that totalitarian-feel to your township:  Provo proposal would criminalize daytime truancy.

A great post is up at Deborah Meier's blog, Perennial Headlines on Education:  take the quiz and see how you do at guessing the dates of ed reform headlines from the past 150 years.

This detailed review of Microsoft Mathematics 4.0, a free download, is up at Educational Freeware

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