It's a big step, choosing to teach a child at home rather than sending him or her to school. There are requirements to measure what home-school students learn, but parents have a lot of latitude in deciding what and how to teach. For those who feel a bit overwhelmed, there are resources available, both from the public school system, and from the likes of the Cascadia Learning Cooperative .

Since the November election, some of our friends and neighbors speak in terms of "resistance." There's a similar message in the musical program "Resist," but the work pre-dates the election. Southern Oregon percussion duo Caballito Negro , previous guests of The Exchange, join forces with Left Edge Percussion for a concert that features flutes, "a truckload of percussion," spoken word, film, and images. The concert is Thursday, February 9th.

Reading a pesticide label is a bit like plunging headlong into a foreign language, one with a fast-changing vocabulary. For example: neonicotinoids. They're a relatively new class of pesticides, favored now because they cause less toxicity in birds and mammals than insects. But that's not good news for pollinators. Two pesticide experts join us to translate what neonic pesticides mean for the insects who actually help plants grow. Aimée Code is Pesticide Program Director for The Xerces Society

What ails your car? Zach Edwards can't fix a car over the phone, but he can certainly try to diagnose the problem. This month we focus on how to decide if you should sell or fix an ailing car. Zach is the proprietor of Ashland Automotive , and our monthly visitor for a segment we call The Squeaky Wheel.

The ocean's mysteries are largely uncharted. We do know many of its creatures are delicious. Yet the unknowns can multiply (or bioaccumulate), when something edible makes the trip from sea to plate. Jennifer Burns Bright is a food writer who explores these issues, and our collective taste for the deep and briny. She's based in Port Orford and the leader of an Oregon Humanities Conversation project about the traditions and challenges of seafood in Oregon.

Think of some of the great lines in literature, like "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Now try to imagine those lines delivered by text message. Would they be the same? In the hands of Mallory Ortberg, they are hilarious. She wrote a book a few years back called Texts from Jane Eyre , with imaginary electronic messages back and forth between some of the major characters in literature.

Complete this sentence: "Moon River, wider _____________." If you said "than a mile," you're familiar with the music of Johnny Mercer. His songs form the heart of a program coming to the stage on February 18th, with vocals by Chris Williams and guitar by Ed Dunsavage. It is the kickoff to an entire season of performances from the Siskiyou Music Project .

The First Friday in February has arrived, and with it, a look ahead to a passel of performances and exhibitions in the arts. We call it our First Friday Arts segment, a call-driven segment where YOU are the guest. If you have an event on stage or gallery or screen to report, tell the rest of the audience, at 800-838-3760. You'll be talking to listeners from Mendocino to Eugene.

Josh Gross has an addiction, and it's one we're only too happy to share. He loves music, and across a wide spectrum of genres and styles. Josh makes music, and writes about music for the Rogue Messenger . And once a month, he visits the studio with "Rogue Sounds," a compilation of musical samples and news of coming band dates.

The British Invasion in popular music gave way to more free-form sounds as the 1960s went on. And that phase gave way to "glam rock" and David Bowie and Lou Reed and the New York Dolls. Could a fan of Led Zeppelin like Queen at the same time? Simon Reynolds ponders these issues in his book on the genre, Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century .