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Guerra, Michael – Momentum, 2001
States that the future of the school choice movement depends upon Catholic educators working in partnership with parents, politicians, and business leaders. Reiterates Pope John Paul II's statement that parents have the right to choose their children's education according to their beliefs, and calls for special advocacy for the rights of…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Education, Home Schooling
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Butler, Shery – Gifted Child Today, 2000
This article discusses home schooling gifted children, including reasons families choose to home school their children, laws regulating home schooling, the educational background of parents who home school, and curriculum options. Advantages and disadvantages of home schooling are explored, along with data indicating the higher achievement of home…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics, Gifted
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Marshall, J. Dan; Valle, James P. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1996
Findings from a study of 19 families in rural Pennsylvania who educate their children at home show that, overall, these home educators are asserting their historical option of cultural agency and schooling. Their decisions have implications for the reform of public education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, Nontraditional Education
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Duvall, Steven F.; Delquadri, Joseph C.; Ward, D. Lawrence – School Psychology Review, 2004
An exploratory study that involved two male and two female elementary students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was carried out in homeschools and public schools. The general purpose of the study was to determine whether parents could provide instructional environments that facilitated the acquisition of their children's basic…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Elementary School Students
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Stevens, Mitchell L. – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2003
Home education emerged as a deviant practice in the USA in the late 1970s and became an acceptable alternative to conventional schooling in a remarkably short period of time. This paper argues that the trajectory of normalisation has been shaped by cultural and institutional features peculiar to the US national context. The paper also offers…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Social Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Educational History
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Rothermel, Paula – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2003
Home educators are often stereotyped by concerned professionals and others who make statements based upon their beliefs rather than research. Characteristics such as eccentric, arrogant, ignorant, middle-class and hippy are often associated with home educators. Increasingly too, they are represented as a potential danger to their children, either…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation
Lines, Patricia M. – 1996
Choosing to homeschool or to educate a child traditionally is often a difficult and confusing decision for parents and guardians. To help them make the best possible choice, this brochure answers basic questions about homeschooling and suggests other useful sources of information. The questions include the following: (1) Do families have a right…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compulsory Education, Educational Policy, Educational Resources
Updating School Board Policies, 1997
School board members are often faced with situations in which their positions of power and influence present opportunities for inappropriate gain. Sometimes the goals of the district conflict with personal agendas. The feature article of this publication describes how to recognize the situations that have the potential to jeopardize board members'…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Boards of Education, Codes of Ethics, Conflict of Interest
Sheffer, Susannah – 1995
Research has documented that the self-esteem of girls plunges at adolescence. Whether this is true for girls educated outside the school system was studied through interviews with 20 homeschooled girls, a questionnaire completed by 20 more, and tape-recorded responses of 5 others. Subjects were asked to describe themselves and their interests,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Relationship, Females
Pilv, Mihkel – 1998
This paper discusses MIKSIKE, an interdisciplinary study program integrating Web technology designed to serve elementary schools and home-schooling families. Developed by a small Estonian company, MIKSIKE is divided into cross-curricular study cycles that last 3 to 5 weeks. The online program works with a standard Web browser and has three areas:…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education
Mayberry, Maralee – 1991
Issues surrounding parental decisions to privatize their children's education are examined in this paper, which focuses on three issues: (1) the declining credibility of state-sponsored education; (2) the nature and causes of privatized education as a viable alternative; and (3) the context in which this option occurs. The first section discusses…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, Ideology
South Carolina State Supreme Court, Columbia. – 1991
This court litigation reverses Farris and Black of Home School Legal Defense Association v. South Carolina State Board of Education, which found that the Education Entrance Examination (EEE) was properly validated for use in testing home school instructors as regulated by S. C. Code Ann. Section 59-65-40(A)(1)(a)(1990), the home schooling statute…
Descriptors: Certification, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling
Lines, Patricia M. – 1986
Increasing numbers of children are meeting state compulsory education requirements at home rather than at school. Although home instruction was once the mainstay of frontier American education, some educators now regard the practice as suspect. This paper hopes to reconcile opposing views by examining home schooling, including numbers of children,…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, Nontraditional Education
Ray, Brian D. – 1989
In view of the fact that in the past decade parents have increasingly begun to educate their children at home, this paper aims to provide an overview of home schooling in the United States. The paper reviews the history of home schooling, describes the characteristics of families involved in home schooling, and discusses the future of home…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics, Family School Relationship
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Journal of Law and Education, 1987
Reviews history of the rights of parents to control the education of their children from colonial times to present (includes the development of case law). English and American common law recognizes parents' natural right to control their children's education. Concludes that, as long as academic standards are satisfied, a child's education should…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
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