Twenty years ago I learned a new synonym for the word frustration: dyslexia. I first saw the term in a report by a pediatrician, who cited dyslexia as an explanation for the fact that our youngest daughter Lisa, could not learn to read. The...
Consternation over the level of educational quality in the United States may now have reached its highest level. On the U.S. Department of Education’s “wall charts,” in state legislatures, in local newspapers, in national magazines, on...
Research has consistently suggested that parents who teach their children at home are not a monolithic group, but a diverse and multi‑faceted group who establish home schools for a variety of reasons. For instance, Gustavson (1981) suggests socio‑relational...
The purpose of this study was to collect information about the determinants of grades 3 to 8 students’ behavior with respect to laboratory and non-laboratory science learning activities. A...
Purpose and HypothesisThe purpose of this project was to establish clear, specified reasons why parents in the Chattanooga, Tennessee vicinity home educate their children. It was hypothesized that home school parent/teachers desire to effectively develop their...
Introduction In America today, thousands of children are meeting state compulsory education requirements at home instead of in school. In 1987, 29 states explicitly permitted instruction at...
There was a significant amount of press coverage given to the issue of home schools in 1984 as the Tennessee legislature struggled with a bill that would allow parents to educate their children at home. As could be expected, it caused concern on the part of...
If what the world needed in the sixties seemed to be “love, more love,” what many clearly believe it needs in the eighties and beyond is leadership, more leadership. Marano (1985), Assistant Director of Student Activities for the National Association...
Introduction In Kotzehu, Alaska, 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle, students do math and English at midnight. In Booneville, California, they read what they choose at a mountaintop ranch,...
The popularity of home schooling over the past several years has prompted many states to provide guidelines for this alternative to traditional education. Thirty-one states now have adopted home-school statutes or regulations. Many other states have...
