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Cohen, Cafi – 2000
This booklet is the second in a series designed to assist parents who are home-schooling their adolescent children. The articles in the booklet are: (1) "Less is More," encouraging home-schooling families to take advantage of local, free resources before buying materials from a curriculum fair; (2) "Putting Together an Eclectic Curriculum,"…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Home Programs, Home Schooling
Zirkel, Perry A.; Gluckman, Ivan B. – Principal, 1983
In "State v. Riddle," the West Virginia Supreme Court held illegal a family's religion-based home instruction of its children because, among other reasons, the family was not part of a self-sufficient religious community and had not followed state procedures on home schooling. Tells how to use legal citations. (RW)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
Prystowsky, Richard – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1995
Parents who are considering homeschooling their children should examine whether they are willing to engage in child-led learning, possess genuine humility and compassion, have the inner security to teach others freely, are themselves willing to learn, and possess patience. Discusses the rationale for and implications of homeschooling. (LP)
Descriptors: Altruism, Competence, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Kerman, Kate – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1993
The author discusses how she learned to accept the differences in approaches to living and learning among herself, her mother, and her daughters. She achieved this by drawing on her own learning experiences, spirituality, and experience in teaching her adopted Native American daughter to read. (LP)
Descriptors: American Indians, Elementary Education, Home Schooling, Individual Development
Farris, Mike – Crisis in Education, 1998
The academic success of home schooling has been repeatedly documented. There are now 1.23 million children being home schooled in the United States Home schoolers have been a key part of the coalition fighting nationalized testing. They have also been disproportionately subject to child abuse investigations by social workers. As a result, they…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling

Pennock, Robert T. – Science and Education, 2002
Discusses philosophical arguments relevant to the question of teaching creationism, especially with regard to developments in the debate since the early 1990s. Considers what the relevant differences for the policy question for private, public schools, and home schoolers are. Discusses the main legal arguments that have ruled in the case of public…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution

Morozova, E. I. – Russian Education and Society, 1999
Focuses on how to prepare children between the ages of 1.5 and 3 to attend a children's institution or regular classes in a corrective counseling group, how to facilitate rapport between the adult and child during the period of adaptation, and how to organize parents' interactions with problem children in the home. (CMK)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Emotional Experience, Foreign Countries
Jordan, Tammi C. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2001
Describes Ohio's Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program's dual enrollment program. Outlines the options under which students can attend college classes, the rules, and the structure of the program. Details the PSEO process at Columbus State Community College (Ohio), including procedures for admission, counselor meetings, and course…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Dual Enrollment

Carlson, David – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 2001
A Japanese wife and American husband raised their daughter to be bilingual by using the "one-parent/one-language approach," in which each parent speaks only their native language with her. Upon reaching school age, her bilingualism was maintained through home schooling in America, an experimental school in Japan, and exposure to Japanese and…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Home Schooling
de Waal, Esther; Theron, Tinie – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2003
This paper studies homeschooling as an alternative form of educational provision in South Africa and USA to determine what knowledge and experiences from research on homeschooling in the USA may be relevant to the South Africa situation. Homeschooling in the USA has a sound legal foundation and has become an acceptable educational alternative.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Emotional Development
Rothermel, Paula – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2004
This article reports on the performance of reception-aged, home-educated children. Media reports tend to focus on older home-educated children withdrawing from school but very little is known about younger children many of whom have never been to school. This research sought insight into the learning experience of these young children. The study…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Comparative Analysis, Traditional Schools, Young Children
State of Hawaii Department of Education, 2007
The Hawai'i State Assessment is an annual testing program that measures student progress on Hawai'i's reading, writing, and mathematics standards. This handbook provides all Department of Education personnel at the school, complex area, and state levels with information about participation in the Hawai'i State Reading and Mathematics Assessment…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Student Participation, Disabilities, Mathematics Tests
Kassem, Derek; Mufti, Emmanuel; Robinson, John – Open University Press, 2006
This major text for Education Studies students provides a critical account of key issues in education today. The text features: (1) A critical analysis of key issues in Education Studies to encourage students' thinking about education in the broadest terms; (2) Themed sections with introductions to link the issues discussed in each chapter; (3)…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Global Education, Comparative Education, Educational Theories
Cappello, Nancy M.; And Others – 1995
Home schooling is one form of school choice that is on the increase. During the 1993-94 school year, Connecticut school officials estimated that there were 1,113 home-instructed students in the state, an increase of 305 students from the previous year and a 1,384 percent increase since 1983. This paper presents findings of a case study that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Fischer, Cheryl Fulton; George, B. Gale – 1994
The problems of at-risk students will require diversity in intervention strategies that are implemented to address their problems. This paper reviews three alternative educational strategies that may be used successfully with at-risk students: (1) independent study; (2) home schooling; and (3) programs designed to meet the needs of homeless…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students