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Sheffer, Susannah – American School Board Journal, 1989
Home schoolers have much to offer their school board and administrator colleagues. Parents who teach their children at home can offer lessons in the following: (1) children setting their own reading goals and achieving them; (2) using vertical age grouping in instruction; (3) children forming friendships with adults; and (4) using student…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, Peer Teaching
Ramsay, Krista – School Administrator, 1992
Since 1982, 34 states have changed their laws or regulations to make it easier for parents to teach their children at home. As the wave of home schooling grows, school administrators can do much to establish a climate of mutual respect, benefit, and cooperation. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, Parent School Relationship, Parent Student Relationship

Welner, Kariane Mari; Welner, Kevin G. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1999
Rudner's analysis of data from a large survey of home-schooled students provides an inaccurate portrayal of home-schooling families as a white, Christian, monolithic population. Insufficient attention to the data's biases gives an erroneous picture of home schooling. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Demography, Elementary School Students
Lafee, Scott – School Administrator, 1998
Public schools are facing growing pressures to allow home-schooled and charter-school students to participate on varsity teams. In many western states, home-schooled students are permitted to play sports. In other states, this practice is prohibited, due to strict eligibility requirements for public-school students. Recent litigation discloses no…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Athletics, Charter Schools, Eligibility

Altieri, Jennifer L. – Reading Horizons, 2000
Looks at the literacy practices of a Catholic home schooling group located in the United States Pacific Northwest. Finds that reading aloud was important to all parents. Notes some benefits cited by parents including immediate feedback for children, ability to pace themselves as necessary, and the opportunity to tailor lessons to individual…
Descriptors: Catholics, Elementary Education, Home Schooling, Literacy
Natale, Jo Anna – Executive Educator, 1996
With home schooling legal everywhere and many home-schoolers reaching high school age, state legislatures are considering whether and how to encourage "mix-and-match" schooling. In some areas, discussion centers on access to academic classes only. In others, attention is on eligibility to participate in sports or extracurricular…
Descriptors: Courses, Extracurricular Activities, Home Schooling, Part Time Students
Javid, Mahnaz A. – Educational Technology, 1998
Summarizes the findings of a two-month case study of Edmonds Cyberschool (Washington), a resource center for homeschoolers. The study focused on the impact of technology on students' learning as indicated in three areas: attitude toward technology, the use of technology, and value of technology versus other available resources. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling

McKethan, Robert N.; Everhart, Brett W.; Herman, Jamie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 2000
Increasing numbers of home-schooled students who need regular physical activity indicate the need for home-school physical education (PE) programs on college campuses. This paper describes the development of one such program, highlighting: home schooling and clinical settings; procedures for establishing clinical programs; organizing clinical…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Home Schooling

Cai, Yi; Reeve, Johnmarshall; Robinson, Dawn T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Focuses on the motivating styles teachers adopt in home school and public school contexts. Results showed that religiously motivated home educators embraced a relatively more controlling style than did public school teachers. Results illuminate ideological roots underlying teachers' motivating styles and highlight the need for home school…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Home Schooling, Individual Differences, Motivation

Farenga, Patrick – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1998
Argues that the home-schooling movement enables teachers, parents, and children to step outside the traditional concept of education and discover how it is possible to teach and learn in various nontraditional ways. Contains 31 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Citizenship, Educational Experience, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling
Morris, Shawn – Technology & Learning, 2001
Describes the development of a Web-based learning program at Wichita Public Schools to eliminate barriers between home schoolers and traditional learning by offering online lessons, resources, and teaching support. Highlights include determining the audience; secure funding; budgeting; technology options; designing the courses; providing…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Budgeting, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Morse, Karen – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article discusses home schooling for gifted children and describes the most common teaching strategies or pedagogical approaches that home schoolers have successfully used, including: classical, lifestyle of learning, schooling at home, structured/mastery learning, unit studies, unschooling, worldview, and curriculum-based. The benefits of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Home Schooling
Zirkel, Perry A. – Principal, 2001
Discusses 10th Circuit Court decision upholding constitutionality of Oklahoma school district's policy that prohibited, with certain exceptions, part-time school enrollment, thus denying home-schooled student from taking certain specialized courses. (PKP)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Callaway, Sean – Journal of College Admission, 2004
Because homeschooled students often enter higher education appearing to be traditionally-educated high school students, due to differing state regulations and the accreditation status of different homeschool programs, and because related records are not kept, it is difficult to know how many enter postsecondary education every year. Current…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Federal Aid, Home Schooling, High School Students
Kirk, Jackie; Winthrop, Rebecca – Academy for Educational Development, 2006
Years of conflict and instability have taken a heavy toll on education in Afghanistan. While the government rebuilds its public education system, formal schools fail to reach many of the country's children. Girls remain particularly underserved as a result of the looming effects of the Taliban's sanctions against educating women. Among the reasons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Sanctions, Public Education