This disturbing piece is from May 2001 and re-published yesterday online. Counts don’t add up, by Lucy Hood, Edmund S. Tijerina and Sharon K. Hughes. Some excerpts:
To assess the extent of the dropout problem, the newspaper last fall began to track the 1,053 freshmen who enrolled at Holmes in the 1997-98 school year. Holmes was [...]
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The August 2nd Grand Junction Daily Sentinel article header listing the number of homeschoolers in the district was a bit startling to this homeschooler who doesn’t report or register in Illinois. Apparently Colorado homeschoolers notify annually to school authorities.
In District 51, 538 students are schooled at home
By EMILY ANDERSON/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Following the [...]
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A new pilot charter school has been approved in Indiana. “The home-school effect” came up in the Journal Gazette, just as it often does in much of this educational trend’s media coverage, potential vendors’ marketing points, along with many legislators’ concerns.
Charter schools set for online trial run The Journal Gazette
by Niki Kelly Published: [...]
Who are and where are homeschoolers? Who should care?
New homeschoolers would likely want to find a support network, along with encouragement from other homeschoolers. Families looking at homeschooling as a way out of the public or private school building would also be looking for state and local resources. Homeschoolers tend to know [...]
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Some states gather data on homeschoolers, some do not. I live in a state that does not, so I’ve been curious about the numbers that some in the media and elsewhere throw out occasionally about homeschooling’s continued explosive growth.
News media employees around the country routinely generate reports featuring homeschooling. Although the resurgence of children learning at home has probably passed it’s 30th birthday, editors and reporters still find homeschooling to be significant enough to warrant column-inches and broadcast-minutes. The tug-of-war about whose hand will rock the educational cradle continues. Figure the odds of reading [...]
I wonder how the number of public school expulsions affects the ‘growth of homeschooling?’
The dilemma of expulsions: They increase as more schools go to zero tolerance, 2 August 2008, MLive.com, Michigan
The school promised to send a tutor once a week, but no one showed up for several weeks, the family said.
The grandmother, who is [...]
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Home-school enrollment up in Wake, state, 2 August 2008, News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina
Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’
WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman
The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston.
A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler
In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling mom related her kids [...]
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