Homeschooling

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Unschooling, Homeschooling in the United States, Charlotte Mason, Legality of homeschooling, National Christian Forensics and Communications Association, Accelerated Christian Education, Rebecca W. Keller, Education Otherwise, Home School Legal Defense Association, McGuffey Readers, Seton Home Study School, Stonesoup School, National Christian Forensics and Communications Association clubs, Badman Review, Independent Learning Centre, Homeschooling and alternative education in India, Paula Rothermel, List of homeschooled people, Thomas Jefferson Education, Kolbe Academy and Trinity Prep, Global Challenge Award, BJU Press, Calvert School, Modern Curriculum Press, Northeast Oklahoma Association of Homeschools, Homeschool athletics, Homeschooling in Germany, California Virtual Academies, Single-parent homeschooling, In home tutoring, Homeschool mathematics, Saxon, Not Back to School Camp, Deschooling, HESFES, Glenn Kimber, The Farm School, School-at-home, Gwinnett Christian Home Educators, Raymond S. and Dorothy N. Moore Foundation, Switched-On Schoolhouse, Growing Without Schooling, The Cooperative, Schoolhouse Home Education Association, Homeschool auction, Homeschool cooperative, Math-U-See. Excerpt: Homeschooling or homeschool (also called home education or home based learning) is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school. Although prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred within the family or community, homeschooling in the modern sense is an alternative in developed countries to attending private schools or educational institutions operated by civil governments. Homeschooling is a legal option for parents in most countries to provide their children with a learning environment as an alternative to public or private schools outside the home. Parents cite numerous reasons as motivations to homeschool, including better academic test results, individualized instruction, to help the public system with fewer kids, more hands on environments, to try alternative methods, poor public school environment, religious reasons, improved character/morality development, the expense of private education, and objections to what is taught locally in public school. Homeschooling may also be a factor in the choice of parenting style. Homeschooling can be an option for families living in isolated rural locations, living temporarily abroad, and to allow for more traveling; also many young athletes and actors are taught at home. Homeschooling can be about mentorship and apprenticeship, where a tutor or teacher is with the child for many years and then knows the child very well. Some parents also want the freedom of choice, instead of a large socialist system with less competition for providing a better education. Homeschooling may also refer to instruction in the home under the supervision of correspondence schools or umbrella schools. In some places, an approved curriculum is legally required if children are to be home-schooled. A curriculum-free philosophy of homeschooling may be called unschooling, a term coined in 1977 by A