Many (most?) schools have their textbooks lists online, in one form or another.

As others have said, there's a big difference between the various sub-disciplines of applied math and the various sub-disciplines of more theoretical math. At some point, he'll need to pick a path. If he is more interested in applied math, it would be useful to consider a double-major in the applied field, whatever that may be. So, math + econ or math + business, or math + biology or ... And if he has interested is those applied field, perhaps that can help narrow down college choices to one with good departments in those areas, or colleges that encourage that kind of double major. As always, I'd look to see at each college where their math majors go after graduation -- if they all go into education, and he wants to be a teacher, great! If they all go into pure math research, and he thinks he may be more interested in applied math, that might be more of a red flag.

Given that the number of applications per student has gone way up, the schools have to carefully manage their admissions process to get the right yield. In additional to the total number of applications for all schools, it would be interesting to know the total number of applicants, and how that's changed over the years. So, I'm curious about how the wait list process has changed. Consider the student who was accepted to all 8 ivies. Assuming that he is going to attend only one of them, that opens up spaces for applicants at seven other schools. Will those admissions come from a wait list, or have the other ivies appropriately "overbooked" their admissions enough to compensate?

One thing I realized (maybe too late), is that you can run yourself ragged driving to one activity after another, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's a lot of socializing going on. Activities like swim team or ballet or other sports may not offer any time for chatting during the activity itself. Other things, like scouts or 4H, though, can be very social. When possible, setting up car pools has been great, even if the activities aren't too far away, as it offers more time for talking with like-minded peers both before and afterwards.

Last time we discussed this we did a bit of research, and in the United States, only five colleges were found that did not accept Latin to satisfy entrance requirements for foreign language. I don't know the numbers on ASL, but it seems that while acceptance of ASL to satisfy entrance requirements is growing, it is still not universal.

I think that the unschooling movement hasn't done itself any favors in their choice of a name. Defining yourself by what you aren't is likely to lead to confusion. If you asked me what my religion was, and I answered "I'm a not-Buddhist", well, you'd be likely to be confused. I haven't heard the term "not schoolers", around here we have "unschoolers", and "radical unschoolers", each of which is a pretty broad brush. I would challenge the unschoolers to try to come up with a more term that more closely describes what they are, not what they aren't.

I love these questions that can't easily be solved by a google search. I was going to try on WhatTheFont, but see that ananemone beat me to it. And I couldn't get it to work either.It seems like the sample letters are too small for what the font to pick up on. Do you have a larger image? What the font is at http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont

Between the Internet in general, and sites like college confidential and social media, I'm struck by how _MUCH_ information today's students have about colleges. So much more than we had. I don't know that being awash in all this information makes the choice any easier. And I don't know that throwing even more information at them will help them make "better" choices, whatever "better" may be.

I don't know that I could provide a good definition of Classical education. I suspect if you asked 10 Classical experts, you might get 12 answers. But, a vital component of Classical education is the value and understanding of the power of language, both as it has been written and passed down to us in literature for 2000+ years, and the power to use language persuasively and correctly ourselves to express our opinions and search for truth. The word "tutor" conventionally means a subject-matter expert who teaches one other person or a small group. Bending the definition of this work for marketing and sales purposes to mean something completely different is an abuse of language, and to my mind, in and of itself, clearly antithetical to the notion of Classical education.

I've never booked a huge group of rooms. However, many hotels let you cancel a booking for free for some amount of time, so if you can find one with that policy, you may be able to book now, and back out if for whatever reason you don't go. Sometimes, I think that hotel reviews online are intentional badmouthing by their competition. We've stayed in hotel rooms with dreadful reviews that were just fine.

The Patrick O'Brian series of books starting with "Master and Commander".

I'm not sure I agree with the advice to write absolutely everything down. This depends a lot on the type of class, but I don't think you want to merely transcribe everything the professor says. Otherwise, why not just read a textbook? It is easy to be so busy writing things down that you don't have an opportunity to think enough about the material to ask a good question (or answer one, if called on!) With some practice, you can notice that good speaker change their inflection or other manner of speaking when trying to convey the most important parts, and it is good to make sure those things are understood. Obviously, there's a balance here, I am certainly not saying that you should write nothing down, and I know that the act of writing itself helps me to remember information, but if you know that some information is also in the text, there's less need to write that down. A more important question may be: what, exactly, do you do with the notes after they are written?

Clearly, it is a nefarious plot to disrupt homeschooling the world over, by causing idle speculation when we should be working on planning...

How very neat! Do you have to go somewhere especially dark to see all these? We don't live in a particularly big city, but it is amazing to me how bright it can be at midnight, and how few stars are visible.

Note that this is very different from claiming that some (unnamed) test scores have fallen every single year since 1979, as a result of the creation of the Department of Education. Moreover, given than many, many men got deferments from the Vietnam draft by being in college, I would expect the literacy rate to be lower for those draftees.

Do you have a reference for the above? A quick check shows that US timss scores are higher in 2011 than 2007 for math, and SAT math scores last year where higher than 1979, but verbal were lower.

Keep in mind that at most colleges, admissions people spend no more than 15 minutes with the student's application to make a decision.

Unless it is 4th declension...

Find an unwashed piece of clothing that smells like whoever feeds him, and leave it out in your front yard along with some water.

I would also consider who is teaching the classes -- it is the same professor? The difference between a good professor and a bad one for the same class can be huge. All other things being the same, I personally prefer the T-Th classes, because each class meeting has a certain fixed amount of overhead, no matter how long it is -- the student's commuting time, the administrative overhead of assigning homework and other trivia, I think you just get more class-time done in fewer, longer classes.

Nothing is ever simple, is it? But I think you are on the right track. In this case, "amata sum" is a single compound verb. It is not she _is_ loved, but the amata and sum together function as the _past_ passive finite verb form. Yes, it looks like a single word verb plus a participle, but it isn't. However, the part that looks like a participle is still "corrected" for the right gender and number, but not case. The perfect passive indicative forms of verbs take the nominative form of the participle, corrected for gender and number (but not case), and a form of the present tense of sum, with the correct number and person. I'm afraid that a lot of the "why" questions about any grammar ultimately end up with the answer "it just does"...

There is a little disagreement in the Latin community about what the fourth principal part should be in a dictionary entry, but the upshot is that it doesn't matter much. Some use the perfect passive participle as the fourth principal part, like "amatus". Note that participles, while derived from verbs, function as adjectives, and thus have number, gender and case. So, technically, that's "amatus, a, um", but no one writes that all out. Don't worry, they are like 1st/2nd declension adjectives, so you don't need to learn a new set of endings. So, the beloved man is "vir amatus", the beloved girl, "puella amata". (And often, the noun is left out, and the adjective starts to work like a noun: "amatus": "The beloved man".) The problem with this is that only transitive verbs have passive forms. So, intransitive verbs have no passive participles. However, there's a rarely-used verb form, the supine, which looks a lot like a participle. That's the one ending in "um". So, as most verbs have a supine form, some dictionaries just list that as the fourth principle part. Whether you memorize the supine or the participle doesn't matter, as you can easily go from one to the other. What is really confusing is that some dictionaries list the participle for verbs that have them, and the supine for verbs that don't.

I know it is an article from a TV station, but the grammatical and punctuation mistakes are so bad that I am tempted to not trust anything about it. It also sounds like the entire story was only sourced from the mom.

While I am a big Latin proponent, I think it might be a bit of a stretch to think that it is a cure-all that will create great leaders and world-shakers. Depending on how you count, I think most of our early Presidents would qualify.

Perhaps you are too young, but for those of us who went to public schools before NCLB, we had no standardized tests in elementary school, and none in middle school. I _think_ we had one or two in high school for the whole four years, and it only covered Math, but I could be wrong. We certainly didn't do any test prep, nor did we devote weeks to testing in any grade, nor did we have pep rallies for the tests, nor did people obsess over which school had one percent better scores this year than a neighboring school. That is how public schools are very different from how they used to be. Not that they were always perfect or even good, but it is specious to claim that the high-stake testing regimens have always existed.