Jay Matthews (full disclosure: a friend from early graduate school days), the Washington Post education writer, has a balanced and perceptive column today on home schooling, as a follow—up to an earilier column which he now admits.

Much of what I thought about home schooling was wrong. The conventional wisdom about this rapidly growing dimension of American education is too simple, too stereotyped and too stale.

How often do you see a prominent reporter at a major newspaper say something like that? In the wake of Daniel Okrent's remarkable admission of New York Times liberal bias, one has to be encouraged.

Of course, Jay always was a decent and honorable person, so I doubt that Okrent had anything to do with his mea culpa. Speaking as a home schooling parent, I found his article very balanced, especially in acknowledging the breadth of the home schooling experience. Read it.

Posted by Thomas  07 28 04