home schooling

(noun)

Homeschooling or home school (also called home education or home-based learning) is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.

Examples of home schooling in the following topics:

  • Homeschooling: Teaching Children at Home

    • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, typically by parents or by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
    • Homeschooling may also refer to instruction in the home under the supervision of correspondence schools or umbrella schools.
    • Parents cite numerous reasons as motivations to home-school their children.
    • Parents, tutors and other individuals who wish home-school their children (or someone else's), should make sure that they are in compliance with state and federal laws.
    • At the same time, in some places, an approved curriculum is legally required if children are to be home-schooled.
  • Homeschooling

    • Home schooling is the education of children at home rather than in the setting of a school.
    • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
    • By enrolling part-time at a school, homeschooled students can study subjects such as foreign languages and sciences, which may be more difficult to teach at home.
    • Thus, the legality of homeschooling has been debated, and that debate has focused largely on whether it is legal for parents to withhold children from school and educate them in a home setting.
    • For example, in Virginia it is "home instruction," in South Dakota it is "alternative instruction," and in Iowa it is "competent private instruction. "
  • Violence in Schools

    • For example, school shootings account for less than 1% of violent crimes in public schools, yet nearly every school shooting makes national headlines.
    • Social risk factors include an unstable home environment, violent neighborhoods, and certain characteristics of a school environment.
    • A home environment may contribute to school violence if, at home, students are exposed to gun violence, parental alcoholism, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or harsh parental discipline.
    • Family-based solutions attempt to improve family relationships in order to improve students' experiences while they are at home.
    • School-wide strategies are designed to modify school characteristics associated with violence.
  • Homeschooling

    • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
    • "Homeschooling Achievement," a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), a homeschooling advocacy group, supported the academic integrity of homeschooling.
    • Homeschooling is the education of children at home, rather than in the formal settings of public or private school.
    • Historically, before the advent of compulsory school attendance laws, most childhood education occurred at home or in the community.
    • "Homeschooling Achievement," a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), an advocacy group, revealed the academic integrity of homeschooling.
  • Education and Liberty in the Developing World

    • Currently, there are more than 75 million primary- school-age children around the world who are not in school.
    • Currently, there are more than 75 million children around the world of primary school age who are not in school.
    • For example, according to UNICEF, an estimated 121 million children of primary-school age are being kept out of school to work in the fields or at home.
    • For example, in high-altitude areas of India, severe weather conditions for more than seven months of the year make school attendance erratic and force children to remain at home.
    • For example, according to UNICEF, an estimated 121 million primary-school-age children are being kept out of school to work in the fields or at home.
  • The Bottom Line: Family Background

    • Children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
    • Not only do wealthier students tend to attend better-funded schools, but they often also benefit from family background characteristics.
    • The monetary advantages of unequal school funding are frequently coupled with the advantage of having a safe, supportive, and intellectually enriching home environment that comes with wealth.
    • So it is not surprising that children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
    • In fact, family background may be even more important than school funding.
  • School of Education Rankings

    • Although flawed, the top education school ranking system provides teachers with an important tool that can help them evaluate education schools.
    • But with so many schools to select from, how do you decide which education program is best for you?
    • News & World Report collects from each educational institution, either from an annual survey sent to each school, or from the school's website.
    • Additionally, nearly 80 percent of visitors accessed the ranking section of the website directly rather than navigating via the magazine's home page.
    • Plus, the reputation of a school can help get that all-important first job and plays a key part in which grad school someone will be able to get into.
  • Educational Reforms

    • Education in the United States had long been a local affair, with schools governed by locally elected school boards.
    • Public schools were rare, and most education took place in the home with the family acting as instructors.
    • A "common school" was a public, often one-roomed school in the United States or Canada in the 1800s.
    • Each district was typically controlled by an elected local school board; a county school superintendent or regional director was usually elected to supervise day-to-day activities of several common-school districts.
    • The school curriculum resembled that of schools in the North.
  • Chicago School of Architecture

    • In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.
    • Many Chicago School skyscrapers contain the three parts of a classical column.
    • The "Chicago window" originated in this school.
    • The Home Insurance Building, which some regarded as the first skyscraper in the world, was built in Chicago in 1885 and was demolished in 1931.
    • Exterior of the Home Insurance Building by architect William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago, Illinois.
  • American Painting: The Ashcan School

    • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
    • American Realism attempted to portray the exhaustion and cultural exuberance of the American landscape and the life of ordinary people at home.
    • The Ashcan School, also known as "The Eight," was central to the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
    • However, the Ashcan School was not an organized group.
    • The artists of the Ashcan School rebelled against American Impressionism, which was the vanguard of American art at the time.
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