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Home Schooling: The Growth of a Movement.(Brief Article)
In 1994, the Census Bureau estimated that 360,000 American children were being home-schooled. In 1996, the U.S. Department of Education pegged the number at 640,000. And on August 1st of this year, the department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a study (Home Schooling in the United States: 1999) that confirms the continuing rapid growth and increasing acceptance of the home-school movement. It is the first attempt by the NCES to estimate the number of home-schooled students, the characteristics of such children and their families, parental reasons for home schooling, and government-school support for home-schoolers.
The July 2001 study is based on data gleaned from a telephone survey of 57,278 households during the first five months of 1999 by the Parent Program of the National Household Education Survey Program, 1999. It found that an estimated 850,000 children ages five ...
- Home-Schooled Students and Sports: No Uniform Policy to Decide Whether...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service November 1, 2001 700+ words
...districts are facing regarding home-schooled students and athletics. A study by researchers...Legislative Action Concerning Home-Schooled Students and Participation in Public School...activities for those students. And home-schooled students are a growing group. Currently...
- Mukwonago, Wis., School Board Considers Testing Home-Schooled Students.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 29, 2003 700+ words
...MUKWONAGO, Wis. -- Home-schooled students could have to take tests so high...challenged the notion that home-schooled students are less prepared for high school...Determining where to place home-schooled students, either gradewise or creditwise...
- District 300 to revisit policy on home-schooled students and activities.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Dillon, Naomi February 28, 2002 700+ words
...rethinking its policy toward home-schooled students and their eligibility to participate...the district opted to keep home-schooled students on the sidelines. "There are no...or not they'll accept (home-schooled) students' work toward graduation," said...
- STUDY AT HOME, STAY AT HOME; EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ARE OUT OF REACH FOR...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) October 30, 2005 700+ words
...Post-Standard survey allow home-schooled students to march in the band, act in the...extracurricular activities for home-schooled students. One district has not formally tackled...Mulvana, parent of three home-schooled students in Cortland. "Colleges look for...
- HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS, FAMILIES EXCHANGE IDEAS.(Neighbors Cayuga)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) November 4, 2004 700+ words
Seymour Library will host an informal meeting for home-schooled students and their families at 11 a.m. Nov. 12. Parents are invited to meet and exchange ideas. Computer classes also are being offered. Call 252-2571.
- HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS CAN ENROLL IN UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS DUAL CREDIT CLASSES...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 2, 2009 700+ words
...school students took dual enrollment courses through the U of M. The new classes are designed specifically for home-schooled students. Two courses will be offered during the fall semester 2009 - college algebra on Mondays and Wednesdays and English composition...
- Financial aid facilitated for home-schooled students.
- Newspaper article from: The Kiplinger Letter August 6, 1999 700+ words
Home-schooled students will have fewer hurdles to financial aid for college under a Dep't of Education proposal that eases requirements. They'll...
- NEW PROGRAMS FOR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS AT LIBRARY.(Neighbors)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) September 3, 2009 700+ words
Byline: TOM LEO Staff writer The Liverpool Public Library is offering two new programs this fall for home-schooled students. Research Made Easy, for students in grades seven to 12, will meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 25, Oct...