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Home-Schooling, 2006.
This paper explores the objectives, benefits and disadvantages of home schooling.
2,793 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 121.95
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This well-researched paper examines the various reasons why home-schooling has come to be an alluring option for parents. One main reason parents choose home-schooling is to educate their children about their own personal religious beliefs and alternative principles.
The writer of this paper details the history of home-schooling which has been gaining popularity in recent years. In the later part of 1960s and in the initial stages of 1970s, home schooling surfaced as an option to public schooling. In 1986, it was estimated that between 120,000 and 260,000 children received their education at home. This paper examines the various benefits to home schooling which include expediency, lenient attendance policies and individualized attention. The writer also details the disadvantages to this type of education including the increasing costs, substandard civic participation, lost social services and absence of quality control. Home-schooling has been condemned due to the fact that these children are devoid of opportunities to communicate with their peers, while many experts feel that home-schooled students are cut off from the outer world and become socially impaired. This paper also discusses the objectives to this type of education.
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Introduction
History
Benefit
Disadvantage
Objectives: Who and Why Consider Home Schooling?
More Research Required
References
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"The first compulsory law relating to education was enacted in 1852 and by the beginning of the century, children in majority of the communities needed to go to school normally through eighth standard. Home schooling came to be, nearly for the majority part archaic. However, displeasure with the public education is in charge of some parents and educators back to home school alternative during the 1970s. The articles of Raymond and Moore, an erstwhile officer of the U.S. Department of Education, and John Holt, author of many books on education, gave credibility and countrywide functioning to an increasing home school movement. Home schools in the present era have once more become popular since parents prefer to give education at home for reasons of safety, values and/or quality of education."
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Home Schooling, 2006.
This paper discusses three published studies on the efficacy of home schooling.
960 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper reviews three qualitative studies of which the first looks at home schooling in 50 states, the second presents a longitudinal study over ten years and the third evaluates four home schooled students with ADHD. The author points out that these three studies disclose that "normal" students and even students with special needs, such as the ADHD, can benefit more and learn more when they are subjected to the teaching method of home schooling. The paper relates that students' educational achievements, grades and behavioral performances at home and in school are used as proof that home schooling generates better understanding and learning from these students.
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"Home Schooling Regulations on Educational Enrollments in the United States"
"Home Schooling: Adventitious or Detrimental for Proficiency in Higher Education"
"Home School ... for Students with Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder"
Generalization
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"ADHD students, who participated Duval and Ward's research, were given a series of academic tests with which the results were compared to the average scores given by the normal students. From the summary of the results quoted above, it can be easily inferred that home schooling for ADHD students is effective because the test results revealed that ADHD students (who participated in the study) performed way better than the normal students enrolled in the public schools."
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Home vs. Public Schooling, 2002.
A comparison between home and public schooling systems.
4,450 words (approx. 17.8 pages), 28 sources, MLA, AU$ 169.95
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This paper debates the advantages and disadvantages of home schooling and public school education. This work focuses on both the pros and cons of home schooling and public compulsory education. Some of the main points of contention between home school advocates and public school advocates are related to socialization, cultural and moral issues, curricular issues, individualized learning issues, and of course focused and class size and school safety concerns. The paper asks: Does a home school setting offer enough curricular diversity?; Does a home school setting offer enough socio-cultural diversity?
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"Choosing the type of education your child will utilize is a very personal decision and is often debated on a philosophical, psychological and sadly even on an economic level. (Zellman1998 pp. 370-308). Because the decision is so personal and the perceived risks, sacrifices and rewards are so large many people both before and after the fact build very strong and vocal cases for the decision they have or will make for their child. In some cases this very vocal and powerful case for one or the other system can be seen as a demonstration that the other choices are less valid and or less beneficial to the child."
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Home Schooling, 2003.
A look at the pros and cons of home schooling and why this is an option for some parents.
1,587 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper discusses the issue of home schooling by, first, presenting the history of home schooling and describing the different reasons why people choose to home school. It examines the social ramifications of home schooling, as well as how it affects family life.
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"The number one reason given by parents is they want to retain responsibility for raising their children. Most home school parents feel as thought they are allowed to maintain control over what their children are learning and retaining. The second largest reason is because of their religious beliefs. Parents who desire a strong religious foundation and values training see home schooling as a way to express these beliefs without the influence of state run schools (Rozen, 2000)."
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Home Schooling, 2003.
A look at how home-schooling a child might affect the psychological and social development of a child.
2,063 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 16 sources, MLA, AU$ 95.95
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This paper examines home schooling, a method of schooling that has been used since the beginning of time. When publicly-funded schools began, the movement began to lose steam as parents began to send their children to what are now considered traditional schools. It looks at how there is a variety of reasons for parents to keep their children at home for schooling, including religious concerns, educational philosophy, and the opportunity to more adequately deal with the special needs of their child. It also discusses how, over the years, the courts have more readily allowed home schooling as a substitute for government-mandated, compulsory schooling and how there have been different concerns about home schooling over the years. It examines how two of the most prominent questions asked about the validity of the method are how well the students achieve academically and how they adjust socially.
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"One of the most prevalent reasons parent choose to homeschool is religion. Many parents want to be able to base instruction on religious teachings and moral values. Since the mid-twentieth century, the public school system has been a battle ground for religion. Prayer has been removed from schools, creationism is forbidden in the curriculum in many places and in some parts of the country, the pledge of allegiance has been outlawed because of the phrase ?under God.? These factors have led many parents to place their children in homeschool in order to provide a more religious and value based environment for their education."
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Home Schooling, 2002.
An analysis of the article written by David Gergen called "No Place Like Home", which favors home schooling above a state school system.
1,505 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper examines David Gergen's article which is very much in favor of home schooling. The paper discusses whether home schooling is good for the child's social development and whether a child who does not go to a regular school system is missing out.
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"The rise of homeschooling is one of the most significant social trends of the past half-century. This reemergence of what is in fact an old practice has occurred for a distinctly modern reason a desire to wrest control from the education bureaucrats and reestablish the family as central to a child's learning. David Gergen writes about the phenomenon of home schooling in his essay titles No Place Like Home."
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Alternate Education And Home Schooling, 2002.
Discusses the origins, curriculum, resources, academic achievement issues, and social development issues of home schooling programs.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This essay describes home schooling as an alternative option for American and Canadian families. Details concerning the origins of home schooling, relations to state-curriculum, resources for home schooling, and issues concerning academic achievement and social development are discussed.
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Home Schooling, 2002.
An argument that home schooling provides an adequate, if not superior alternative to public education.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 57.95
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Argues that home schooling provides an adequate, if not superior alternative to public educatiion. Appeal of home schooling. Diverse characteristics. Problem of declining quality of public schools. Lack of quality education, growth of campus violence and drugs as reasons for popularity of home schooling. Cites research studies on the topic.
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"Over the last decade, home schooling has increased in popularity. According to different estimates, the number of home schooled children ranges from 500,000 to 750,000 (Lines, 1997, p. 4). Disillusioned by the inability of public schools to provide high-quality education to their children within a safe environment, parents all over the nation have taken the initiative of educating their children themselves. Home schooling refers to the education of school-aged children within a home instead of a school setting (Lines, 1993, in Lyman, 1998, p. 2). Home schools exhibit diverse characteristics, ranging from highly structured to liberal. Nonetheless, home schoolers share the basic belief that education should not be restricted to the school environment. By educating their children in their homes and communities, home schoolers believe their children will..."
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The Cost of Home Schooling, 2006.
This paper examines the option of home school education for children with special educational or developmental needs.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper examines the costs or effects of home schooling as opposed to other forms of day schooling education. It looks specifically at students with health or educational problems (special needs) and developmental issues (teenagers). The creative outlets for home schooled students, such as sports teams or programs are also considered. The overall tone of the paper suggests caution when considering home schooling, especially for children with special needs.
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"Home schooling, although a small percent of the U.S. educational experience, is regardless a significant option to analyze. Although there may be many reasons why parents decide to educate their own children, there may be cases where this is not the best alternative. In dealing with a wide variety of students and their developmental and educational needs, there may be times when home schooling can prove less effective than going to school, especially when professional aid is required. One central and current educational debate involves the correct assessment and pedagogy regarding students with learning or developmental disabilities. Such students with special needs need appropriate care in order to be taught effectively. Without training, this might not be possible in an home school environment and related research suggests that "parents, when assisted by professionals, can be effective instructors of children with handicaps . . . however, home schooling is usually carried out by parents without professional..."
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Learning Versus Teaching: The Home-Schooling Movement, 2001.
A thorough and in-depth study into home-schooling as a viable alternative to America's public education system.
5,300 words (approx. 21.2 pages), 48 sources, MLA, AU$ 191.95
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An extensive study of home-schooling, evaluating this form of education with a positive outlook based on a large body of evidence including standardized test scores, collegiate performance and expert opinions. The paper explores education theories and the history of public education in America. The author of the paper offers conclusive and thought-provoking arguments in favor of home-schooling.
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"For years, reform within the public, mandatory educational system was viewed by most as the only option for improving education. Now, we have seen the advent of the ?home schooling movement,? a response to educational reform involving complete renunciation of the public school system, and home schooling has received increasing media coverage. Yet the idea of teaching children at home is not a new one. Shaw and others saw the advantages of home schooling over a century ago. ?My schooling [...] prevented me from being educated to such an extent,? he wrote, ?which infuriates me to think of all I might have learned at home by myself? (quoted by Libertarian). In his time, the idea of keeping a child at home, instead of sending them to school, was entertained by only a few radical thinkers, but it is now a viable option for American families, legal in all fifty states (Callaway 6). Given this newfound freedom, we should explore the possibility that home schooling is a superior approach to learning, with better long-term results, than public education -- just as the intellectual elite of Shaw?s day suggested."
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Home Schooling, 2008.
A description and overview of the advantages and disadvantages of home schooling.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 48.95
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This paper discusses how home schooling raises the question of whether or not children will still be able to engage in a constructive social life with others - and receive the education they need - while being taught by their own parents; the successful resolution of this question is essential to the healthy development of the child. The paper contends that parents who take the critical step of home schooling need to explore all of the elements that go into a proper home-based education for their children.
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"Earlier mention was made of the social dynamics - meeting people, interacting with others - that raise significant questions vis-a-vis home-schooled young people. Naturally, the question of social isolation emerges (though this can be overcome as mentioned previously) and critics of home-schooling seize upon this by suggesting that home-schooled children run the risk of developing poor social skills. Conversely, of course, parents who choose to home-school their loved ones argue that schools present an unpalatable social environment rife with potential abuse and harassment. Happily, studies conducted on this issue find that home-schooled children develop roughly the same number of friends, and interact with others in roughly the same way, as do children who are not home-schooled. "
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Home Schooling, 2004.
A discussion on the advantages of home schooling for children.
2,356 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 105.95
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Traditional school-based education was once though to be the most effective and essential part of the education of children. Yet, recent trends have dramatically increased the number of alternatives available to students and their parents. This paper addresses some problems with school-based education and, in turn, disproves some of the popular myths associated with home-schooling. It argues that home-schooling is a viable alternative for many students and should be taken advantage of to a greater degree.
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"Public schools have been under intense scrutiny for several years. The level of student failure, in the United States, one of the most advanced nations in the world casts a clear and reasonable doubt upon the validity of our school systems. The responses from the public education system has been to adopt a system of outcomes based testing which does not change the school but then makes educators and students follow a curriculum that is geared almost exclusively toward test success and yet there is no real proof anyone is learning any more than they were before the testing became the focus."
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Home-Schooling and Social Skills, 2004.
An examination of whether children who are home-schooled lag behind in developing social skills.
2,258 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 101.95
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This study clarifies and expands on existing research that suggests that home-schooled students do not suffer any significant negative effects on their socialization. The writer proposes research to examine whether students who attend public school have better social skills than students who are schooled at home; the hypothesis states that students would benefit more, socially, in a public school setting than a home school setting.
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"As of 1994, between 750,000 and 1 million American children were home schooled, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association (Aiex). At the same time, concerns over inadequate socialization of home-schooled children are one of the common reasons that parents give for not home schooling their children. Writes Aiex, "The stereotypical home-schooled child is often portrayed as being shy, passive, and lethargic because of his/her isolation from the normal socialization found in formal schooling." However, researchers have suggested that there are large negatives to socialization in public schools, including the exposure to "negative socialization, conformity, and peer pressure" (Aiex). As such, a clear understanding of the effect of home schooling on socialization is important both for the large number of parents who already home school their student, and parents who are considering home schooling as an option."
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Home Schooling, 2005.
A discussion of home schooling as an alternative to public schools.
2,781 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 121.95
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This paper explains that, due the general dissatisfaction of public schools and the prohibitive prices of private schools, many parents are considering home schooling as a way of educating their children. The paper also details the advantages of home schooling over public schooling.
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"Education all the while has been a burning issue, it has been talked about in political fraternities, in the media and expectantly, in the households of America. Schools are encountering plummeting test results, aggressive behavior and other difficulties and it evidently appears that there is an urgency to assess various options for imparting education to the children of America. A lot of alternatives are available; however, home school, private schools and public schools are among the three types of schools which are extremely widespread and adored by all. (Evaluating schooling alternatives)"
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Indian and U.S. Home Schooling, 2005.
Compares and contrasts the Indian system of Gujarat and the American system of home schooling.
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 66.95
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The Indian educational system of Gujarat has differences and similarities to the home schooling system of the United States. The paper shows that the Gujarat school system is one half day at school and one half day at home, while the American system is usually all day at home. The paper looks at criticisms and structures of both these systems.
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"In American home schooling, one may questions whether a mother, who is not a professional teacher may grow weary and or fall prey to cleverness and biased emotion and in doing so, promote poor performance from her pupil. In fact, there is the general skepticism in the United States that the home-schooled student is incompatible with, unconventional for and under par to traditional education. Higher academia in the United States has taken note of these students and when the home schooling is not ascribed to some sort of check and balance system, or responsibility to a public or private system, higher academia has placed higher entrance requirements and in some cases, added qualifiers upon the home schooled student's admission."
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Home Schooling, 2002.
A research proposal on home schooling.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 64.95
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A proposal outlining the problems faced by parents who home school their children.
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