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Boles, Jessika C.; Winsor, Denise L. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2019
Thousands of children are diagnosed with cancer each year and are unable to participate in normative developmental and cultural contexts such as school. Little is known about how children with cancer perceive attending school in alternative settings, such as the home and hospital, while receiving treatment. This study coded the drawings of 10…
Descriptors: Cancer, Children, Student Attitudes, Nontraditional Education
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2019
This document contains a model policy for the expansion of a dual enrollment. The model policy proposes expanded access to dual enrollment courses by: (1) expanding eligible students to additional grades and public, private, and homeschool school students; or (2) increasing available funding for tuition and associated fees; (3) implementing a…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Dual Enrollment, Public Schools
Jeffery, Joseph M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This exploratory Grounded Theory qualitative study identified parent networking and collective engagement practices among parents who homeschool and analyzed these practices for potential applicability in public schools. This study conducted interviews of a sample of Connecticut parents who homeschool, where they discuss their collective parent…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Public Schools, Parent Participation, Social Networks
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Majoko, Tawanda; Dudu, Annah – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study explored parents' strategies for home educating their children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during the COVID-19 period in Harare Urban District in Zimbabwe. Embedded within international research findings on the subject, this qualitative study drew on a purposive sample of eight parents. Telephonic individual interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Parent Role, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Jochim, Ashley; Poon, Jennifer – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
In the summer of 2020, it became clear to growing numbers of families and community organizations that COVID-19's unprecedented disruptions to public education would not subside in time for the coming school year. Facing the prospect of continued school closures and uncertain public health safeguards, families were forced to make new childcare…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Futures (of Society)
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Sakarski, Gergana – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
Soft skills are key for the successful realisation of individuals in their personal, professional and social life, but scientific research conducted on the soft skills of homeschoolers is still scarce so far. One of the most frequent questions, when homeschooling is discussed concerns the presumed lack of social skills of homeschoolers. A common…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Soft Skills, Skill Development, Well Being
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Archie Thomas – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
Schooling has been a site of harm for Indigenous people in settler colonial contexts, as a tool of dispossession, assimilation and separation from country and kin. However, schools have simultaneously been sites to work against this and build alternatives to settler colonial systems that nourish Indigenous futures. This article centers the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Colonialism, Educational Policy
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Cahoon, Abbie; McGill, Shauna; Simms, Victoria – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
The COVID-19 lockdown has impacted many aspects of our lives. In particular, children have experienced a rapid change in the way in which education has been delivered. In this study we aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on educational delivery from the perspective of parents. As seen within the emerging literature in relation to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
EdChoice, 2021
This poll was conducted between November 6-November 18, 2021 among a sample of 435 Black School Parents. The interviews were conducted online. Results based on the Black School Parents sample have a measure of precision of plus or minus 5.3 percentage points. Among the key findings are: (1) Black parents' overall support for school vouchers…
Descriptors: Parents, Blacks, African Americans, Elementary Secondary Education
Jennifer Michelle Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative phenomenological research study examined parent perspectives on shared reading in science. This study was designed to understand parents perceived shared reading to influence their child's science vocabulary and comprehension. The purpose of the study was to determine how parents perceive shared reading to impact their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Education, Parents, Parent Attitudes
Gill, Rachel Pierson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the type of high school completed and selected academic and demographic characteristics on university retention to degree completion at a research university -- very high research (RU/VH) in the Southern Region of the United States. The dependent variable of this study was…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Research Universities
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Gomez-Bendaña, Heather; Steiner, Elizabeth – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
Before the pandemic, Community Works in New Orleans, Louisiana ran large-group (100- to 200-student) after-school and out-of-school-time programs that integrated enrichment and academics for youth in grades K-8. When school buildings closed in March 2020, Community Works started offering more versatile programming options to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Wearne, Eric – Peabody Journal of Education, 2019
"Hybrid homeschools" generally operate as formal schools 2-3 days per week. The rest of the week students are homeschooled. These entities therefore share some aspects of conventional schooling along with some aspects of homeschooling and are classified in a variety of ways by their states, local districts, and even their own…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Conventional Instruction, Charter Schools, Parent Attitudes
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Neuman, Ari – Educational Studies, 2019
Homeschooling is a practice in which children of all ages do not attend school, usually by choice of their parents. Research has found diverse reasons for choosing homeschooling, including, reason related to family, personal safety, and others. However, the main reason cited repeatedly for homeschooling is dissatisfaction of parents with the…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Quality, Parent Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
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Burke, Katie; Cleaver, David – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
This paper explores understandings and implications arising from research conducted into how home educating families approach learning in the creative arts. Through a series of online focus groups with 14 Australian home educating families, the authors sought to understand the strategies and learning activities that families employed when teaching…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Art Education, Communities of Practice, Learning Theories
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