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Thomas, Richard M., II – ProQuest LLC, 2018
An underrepresented population of homeschool students are attending colleges and universities and have quietly obtained their degrees. This qualitative study was intended to understand how these former homeschool students navigated the transition into college and what led to their paths to success. The researcher used a narrative methodology…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Student Attitudes, College Students, Academic Achievement
Kelly Robson; Michael Johnson; Jennifer O'Neal Schiess – National Comprehensive Center, 2020
The goal of this brief is to examine the extent to which different school choice policies have been implemented in rural communities, identify the barriers, and provide recommendations for policymakers looking to expand access to school choice in rural communities. The school choice policies discussed in this brief include: (1) Charter schools;…
Descriptors: School Choice, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Access to Education
Ray, Brian – Journal of Pedagogy, 2021
The purpose is to briefly summarize forty years of research on the learner outcomes of the modern homeschooling movement and address whether educators should be promoting home education. Studies show that homeschooling (home education) is generally associated with positive learner outcomes. On average, the home educated perform better than their…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Daoud, Rana; Starkey, Louise; Eppel, Elizabeth; Vo, Tho Doan; Sylvester, Allan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
This article presents a systematic review of literature that explores the educational value of the Internet in the home for school aged children. Research published between 2008 and 2018 was examined and 67 items were analyzed. A range of positive, negative and neutral correlations or outcomes of home Internet use were identified across the three…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Teaching Methods, Internet, Correlation
Pittman, Joyce; Severino, Lori; DeCarlo-Tecce, Mary Jean; Kiosoglous, Cameron – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to share responses from current literature, a small case study about perceptions and practices of the school of education faculty toward multicultural and educational issues concerning the rapid rise in online environments during coronavirus (COVID-19) experiences and just-in-time strategies for addressing digital equity…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Higher Education
Roulhac, Gwen Delaun – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Homeschooling continues to experience unprecedented growth across the United States, including in North Carolina. More than 2 million children nationally and over 106,000 children in North Carolina are enrolled in homeschools. North Carolina's original homeschool law had long been interpreted to mean that parents had to provide all academic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Public Schools, Home Schooling, Qualitative Research
Pannone, Sarah Jeanne – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a homeschool education influences entrepreneurial characteristics and activity. Design/methodology/approach: A collective case study design was used to investigate how a homeschool education influences entrepreneurial characteristics and activity. Findings: From the participant interviews,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Home Schooling, Case Studies, Interviews
Yu, Rondy; Monteiro, Elissa – Communique, 2020
Nonpublic schools (NPSs) are used by local education agencies (LEAs) across the country to serve students with exceptional needs. These students are often reported to suffer from mental health challenges and engage in severe problem behaviors. The social and financial costs associated with NPS placements are significant, and it is imperative that…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Student Placement, School Districts, Special Needs Students
Anderson, Elizabeth; White, John – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2019
The distinguished US philosopher Elizabeth Anderson, who teaches at the University of Michigan, answers questions put to her by John White about educational aspects of her work in moral and political philosophy. She begins by describing her indebtedness to Dewey in his views on developing students' capacities for intelligent enquiry and as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Ethnicity, Educational Opportunities, Educational Philosophy
Kašparová, Irena – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
There is a 240-year tradition of compulsory school attendance in the Czech Republic. To many, compulsory school attendance is synonymous with the right to be educated. After the collapse of communism in 1989, along with the democratization of the government, the education system was slowly opened to alternatives, including the right to educate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Home Schooling
DiPerna, Paul; Catt, Andrew D.; Shaw, Michael – EdChoice, 2020
Unlike previous years of our "Schooling in America" survey project, our researchers are releasing multiple sets of results in a new, chart-focused format. This report is focused on the second wave of questions we asked about public opinion on K-12 education during the COVID pandemic. We also asked respondents their opinion on educational…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Opinion
Hamlin, Daniel; Flessa, Joseph – Educational Policy, 2018
Educational policies have increasingly promoted parental involvement as a mechanism for improving student outcomes. Few jurisdictions have provided funding for this priority. In Ontario, Canada, the province's Parents Reaching Out Grants program allows parents to apply for funding for a parental involvement initiative that addresses a local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Educational Policy, Grants
Carpenter, Dan; Gann, Courtney – Educational Review, 2016
Using a qualitative case study approach, this study looked at the educational activities that constitute a typical day in a homeschool family and the role that the parent has within those activities. Three homeschooling families with high school students in a single community in a southern state in the United States participated in the case study.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Home Schooling, Parent Child Relationship
Williamson, Ben – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2017
Silicon Valley's high-tech companies, tech-philanthropists, startups, and culture of venture capital are "the centre of a techno-economic revolution" that is "now spreading outwards across the world, with major societal effects and implications" (Duff 2016, 5). In this article, Ben Williamson traces and maps how education is…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Educational Change, Entrepreneurship, Economic Development
Chase, Sarah; Morrison, Kristan – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2018
Unschooling is a form of homeschooling in which parents allow children to self-direct their education. To determine if there was any evidence of unschoolers attending to the goals of multicultural education, we conducted a content analysis of a germinal resource--the 1977-1981 issues of "Growing Without Schooling"("GWS"). Our…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Student Centered Learning, Learner Controlled Instruction, Multicultural Education