Homeschooling
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[edit] Homeschooling basics
Homeschooling is a method of childhood education which eschews mainstream mass schooling in the form of government or private schools and keeps the responsibility and implementation of education directly in the hands of the child's own parents. Home schoolers believe that the education they provide for their children from home is a better preparation for adulthood than the institutional options available to them. Homeschooling is a diverse movement, stretching across economic, racial, religious and political groups. As parents vary in their reasons and philosophies of homeschooling, the methods employed are equally diverse, as each family chooses the education that best suits its children and circumstances. Though very few generalizations can be made, perhaps one can say that homeschoolers as a whole:
- find mass schooling an inefficient use of the child's time.
- believe individual and parental rights supercede government interest in the child.
- homeschool out of a desire to give their children a superior education.
- reserve the right to define education for their own family.
Parents who choose to homeschool may do so because they find mass schooling: too religious or not religious enough; too demanding or not rigorous enough; moving too quickly or too slowly for their child; unsafe or too confining; too intrusive or too unresponsive.
Homeschooling is legal across the United States, though regulated variously. Some states have an entirely hands-off policy while others require differing levels of notification or oversight. All states have many support groups which can provide information, interaction, and learning opportunities.
[edit] Perspectives
Methods of homeschooling, which are often combined or modified in practice, include:
- Charlotte Mason
- Classical
- Eclectic
- Montessori
- Networked learning
- School-in-a-Box (replicating institutional curriculum at home)
- Unit Studies
- Unschooling
- Waldorf
[edit] Courses and Learning Materials
[edit] Learning activities
See Category:Age groups for now please.
[edit] Resources
Reviewed sites:
- Growing Without Schools (Holt Associates)
- JOHN HOLT AND THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY HOMESCHOOLING by Patrick Farenga
- Home School Legal Defense Association (Reconstructionist agenda)
- Home Schooling laws by state (Incomplete and often inaccurate)
Unreviewed sites:
- A to Z Home's Cool (inclusive support, free and commercial resources)
- Homeschool Laws- A to Z Home's Cool (Global resource. Recommended by Cornell University Law School Library.)
- Homeschool World (uses popups - contains many ads, reconstructionist agenda)
- Homeschool.com (contains many ads)
- ...
