Homeschool Now with Nita Podcast
Follow the Paper Trail With Us.
Season 1 · 16-Episode Investigation
Season 1 follows the historical trail assembled by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt in The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.
Across 16 episodes, we’ll investigate the people, policies, institutions, documents, and claims she brought together. New episodes publish on the first Thursday of every month.
Understand the argument. Follow the sources. Evaluate the evidence. Reach your own conclusions.
Plain-Language Guide
A Plain-Language Guide to The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
A clear, readable 36-page introduction to the central ideas Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt presents in The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. Understand the key people, programs, terms, and recurring themes in plain language before returning to the full book.
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Homeschool Now with Nita · Parent Research Center
Explore the Parent Research Center
The podcast is one doorway into a larger research library built to help parents investigate the history, ideas, policies, and evidence shaping education.
THE HOMESCHOOL NOW PARENT RESEARCH CENTER
Who Is Forming Your Child?
Homeschool Now investigates the forces shaping how children learn, think, believe, and become—helping Christian parents follow the evidence and respond with wisdom.
THE PARENT QUESTION
Information is everywhere. Understanding is harder.
Parents are surrounded by headlines, studies, policies, programs, and expert claims. The challenge is not merely finding more information. It is knowing what the evidence actually establishes, which influences are shaping a child, and what parents should do with what they learn.
Investigate. Discern. Form.
Investigate
Follow the paper trail. Read the source. Understand what actually happened.
Discern
Separate documented fact from interpretation, allegation, and unresolved questions.
Form
Bring the insight home. Decide intentionally what will shape your child and family.
FEATURED INVESTIGATION · HN-INV-EDU-001
The Transformation of American Education
When did school become about more than academic learning? Follow the historical documents, educational ideas, policies, and unresolved claims behind one of the most important questions in modern education.
Research Collections
Education Under Investigation
What is shaping how children learn, think, and reason?
Historical Archives & Primary Sources
What did influential thinkers, reformers, and institutions actually say?
Culture & Formation
What is forming children outside formal education?
Family Formation
Are families positioned to form capable adults?
Faith, Freedom & Authority
Who is discipling the next generation, and can parents direct formation?
OUR METHODOLOGY
We never say more than the evidence allows.
We do not ask parents to accept a conclusion because it is dramatic, popular, or aligned with our concerns. We separate what the documents establish from what researchers infer—and from what remains unresolved.
DOCUMENTED
SUPPORTED / PLAUSIBLE
HISTORICAL ALLEGATION
OPEN QUESTION
UNSUPPORTED / NOT ESTABLISHED
START WITH THE PAPER TRAIL
Investigate educational claims for yourself.
Learn how to identify the question, find the source, read the context, separate evidence from interpretation, and determine confidence with the free Education Paper Trail Starter Kit.