Category Archives: Education

Stanford and Google on Monday

Day 636 of 1000 Well, I thought I was going to have the chance to catch on my post series, it looks like it is not going to happen. I continue to keep the home fires burning while Kelly and … Continue reading

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Senioritis!

Day 625 of 1000 Today was the last day of finals for both Kelly (Intermediate Macroeconomics) and Christian (Java).  They are now both officially on summer vacation and official Seniors in college!  Congratulations to the both of them on a … Continue reading

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Kelly’s toughest statistics class – done

Day 624 of 1000 There are plenty of hard classes in Kelly’s Statistics program at NCSU, but everyone believes Mathematical Statistics II is probably the hardest.  Kelly has been hammering away at this class since the beginning of the year … Continue reading

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Writing plans for Prescott – Series on how we taught two languages and some series clean-up

Day 622 of 1000 I left the family at home yesterday to make my way to Phoenix last night.  The drive up to Prescott up from Phoenix in the morning was absolutely fabulous as usual.  It is no fun to … Continue reading

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Another new education blog with a Korean-American twist

Our Happy Happas is a new blog that chronicles the thoughts of a highly educated stay at home mom and her highly educated husband about raising and educating their two little girls as the raise and educate their two little … Continue reading

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Finals week is getting serious

Christian studies for his Real Analysis final.

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Rules for a great career (even if it is accidental) Part 1 of 3 – Stay in touch

Day 620 of 1000 This is the first in a series of three posts about things that have helped me develop and sustain a career I love.  The first post is about how to stay in close touch with people … Continue reading

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My favorite government school teacher’s blog

My cousin, Trisha, teaches at a school with somewhere in the range of 30-40 students in the (very) small town of Austin, Nevada.  She writes an absolutely fascinating blog called RollCallTales about a school that is so small, the principal … Continue reading

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Sonlight Homeschool Curricula (Part 4): History

Day 619 of 1000 This is the fourth in a series of articles about why we used Sonlight Curricula in our homeschool.  Here is a page that holds an introduction to the series and links to the other posts in … Continue reading

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Sonlight Homeschool Curricula (Part 3): Science

Day 618 of 1000 This is the third in a series of articles about why we used Sonlight Curricula in our homeschool.  Here is a page that holds an introduction to the series and links to the other posts in … Continue reading

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How to teach computer programming to kids (Part 9) A suggested curriculum

Day 617 of 1000 This is the ninth in a series of posts on how we taught our children to program, what we did wrong and how we think we could have done better.  You can see the introductory post … Continue reading

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Sonlight Homeschool Curricula (Part 2): Why we thought it would be good for us before we knew much about it

Day 616 of 1000 This is the second in a series of articles about why we used Sonlight Curricula in our homeschool.  Here is a page that holds an introduction to the series and links to the other posts in … Continue reading

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Humanities and Social Science degrees should require more math

Day 615 of 1000 Kelly’s enthusiasm for all things statistical and a discussion with her yesterday inspired me to look back through a few articles from The Numbers Guy at the Wall Street Journal.  I found a great article that … Continue reading

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How to teach computer programming to kids (Part 8) CSC 116 Introduction to Computing – Java at NCSU

Day 614 of 1000 This is the eight in a series of posts on how we taught our children to program, what we did wrong and how we think we could have done better.  You can see the introductory post … Continue reading

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How to teach computer programming to kids (Part 7) Statistical programming in R and SAS

Day 613 of 1000 This is the seventh in a series of posts on how we taught our children to program, what we did wrong and how we think we could have done better.  You can see the introductory post … Continue reading

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How to teach computer programming to kids (Part 6) C++, Python, and browsing the web with a dumb phone

Day 612 of 1000 This is the sixth in a series of posts on how we taught our children to program, what we did wrong and how we think we could have done better.  You can see the introductory post … Continue reading

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Why not skip high school? (Addendum 1) Starting college by age 12 (not us)

Day 611 of 1000 This is an addendum in a series of posts on the benefits of skipping high school and going straight to college.  The introductory post and index to all the other posts in the series is here. … Continue reading

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Mailbag: The Whetham clan and honors for Christian

We received two interesting pieces of mail today.  First, an invite to a family reunion for people who descend from my father’s maternal grandparents.  It is in June in Oregon and I am going to try to be there with … Continue reading

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Kelly will be FAMOUS–she will be published tomorrow

Remember this comic strip that Kelly drew.  It has been accepted for publication in North Carolina State University’s student newspaper, The Technician.  She is going to be famous!

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How to teach computer programming to kids (Part 5) Projects in C, GaugeCam, and PHP

Day 608 of 1000 This is the fifth in a series of posts on how we taught our children to program, what we did wrong and how we think we could have done better.  You can see the introductory post … Continue reading

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