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Peer reviewedMeighan, Roland – Educational Review, 1984
Discusses some of the myths surrounding home-based schooling and some of the activities of Education Otherwise. Myths refuted include compulsory education and the illusion that only qualified teachers can educate at home. (JOW)
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Nontraditional Education, Parent Rights, Political Attitudes
Download full textRothermel, Paula – Online Submission, 2000
Should school be a place where children go because they want to go? Yes. Should school be a place where children only go if they want to? Yes. This paper questions the way that we educate our children, taking evidence, not from a school based perspective, but from research (Rothermel 1999a) into those families who choose not to use the system…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Children, Standards
