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Compulsory Education and Home Schooling: Truancy or Prophecy?

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Pitman, Mary Anne – Education and Urban Society, 1987

Profiles the current trend of parents' choosing to educate their children at home. Provides data on the numbers and motivations of such parents and examines the surrounding legal issues. Challenges the premise of compulsory schooling on the basis of achievement data that document the superior performance of home-schooled children. (KH)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compulsory Education, Dropouts, Educational Trends

Growing without Schooling, 1998.

Sheffer, Susannah, Ed. – Growing without Schooling, 1998

This document is comprised of the six bimonthly issues published during 1998 of a newsletter-like periodical focusing on home schooling and providing parents in the United States and other nations with ideas, activities, research summaries, and resources to teach their children at home. Each issue contains short news items and reports on home…

Descriptors: American Indians, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities