The title and subtitle tells us what the article is about.
Online High Schools Test Students’ Social Skills
As Digital Learning Programs Grow, Educators Hope to Prevent Teens From Feeling Isolated
Online high schools are growing more popular. Roughly 100,000 of the 12 million high-school-age students in the U.S. attend 438 online schools full-time, up from 30,000 five [...]
Department of rewrites.
Tonight on KALB News Channel 5, 21 August 2007, Alexandria, Louisiana
… many of us know people that home school their children. Home Schooling has many advantages but one of the criticisms launched against the practice is that children sometimes lack the elective skills, such as shop or art that kids in regular school [...]
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In the next story, there appears to be no intention on the part of the family to continue homeschooling after the sentence is served (”home-school” is a punishment, not a choice by the family) so why doesn’t the school just treat the boy as homebound?
Sentence: Intensive probation — Hiland teenager admits to taking handgun [...]
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Crash survivors sent home, 12 July 2007, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California More than two weeks after a car accident in Azusa Canyon killed 18-year-old Long Beach resident Melanie Torres, two young survivors of the crash are beginning to heal.
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He had hoped to attend marching band camp in the summer, but now [...]
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Sheriff works to improve communication with FLDS compound, 28 April 2007, Rapid City Journal, Rapid City, South Dakota The state requires home-schooled students to make applications for standardized academic tests required of students in public and private schools. Students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 must take the tests.
The FLDS compound [...]
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The following article is mostly ‘about’ homeschooling, but with an emphasis on co-ops. Starting a co-op can be a fun thing to do, but unfortunately (to a degree), with our current model of oversight of public activities, the proliferation of such groups might lead to the requirement that they be controlled. Think of the [...]
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Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, 28 December 2006, Tweens in transition
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Being a tween (ages 9-12) or early teenager is a lot trickier than it used to be. By the time children reach high school, many already have begun dabbling in high-risk behavior.
About 21 percent of eighth-graders have used illicit drugs at least once, according to the [...]
Goshen Chronicle, Goshen county, New York, 18 December 2006, Family invites community home to watch global warming movie
Chester screening joins thousands nationwide
Chester Lee Squires-Sussman and her husband, Michael, of Chester are inviting the community to their home at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s movie about global [...]
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