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Staying Home From School: Parents who choose to teach their children at home have traditionally done so for religious reasons. And many - indeed most- still do. But a growing number of home-schooling parents now point to a host of secular and practical reasons for opting out of school and taking education into their own hands.
More and more parents are opting to homeschool their children, but not for traditional reasons. This article explores the phenomenon by focusing on several families who homeschool for various reasons such as having very gifted children or living in rural areas.
Tags: homeschooling; education; unschooling; mental development; learning strategies
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Home Sweet School
The Time Magazine looks at the home-school movement and examines people's wrong assumptions about it. The story finds that "the new home schoolers aren't hermits," but "diverse parents who are getting results - and putting the heat on public schools." The reporters point to many examples of high achievers who - after getting inadequate treatment by teachers - have been schooled at home and continued their education in the most elite colleges of the country. The article reveals that home-schoolers have higher test scores and view television fewer hours than other students do. The story finds that public confidence in the schools is eroding.
Tags: students; teachers; parents; public schools; Harvard; M.I.T. TV viewing habits; SAT; Department of Education; Home School Legal Defense Association
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Radical Behavior; In the Line of Fire
Teen People reports about a group of teenage anti-abortion activists who are attending a camp where they learn guerrilla tactics for their radical anti-abortion activism. The teens practiced how to dodge security, submit to arrest and even deal with the media. The sidebar reports about teens and the consequences they live with as a result of their activism.
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Home sweet school
The nation's third largest population of homeschooled children go back to the books this month in Ohio. But just what they are learning -- or aren't learning -- is a subject of much debate. Ohio Magazine investigates.
Tags: Legislature College
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The Ragged Edge
A Spokesman-Review investigation reveals a broad anti-government movement in the Inland Northwest that is uniting diverse factions of people and shaping local politics. While the militia may be the most visible manifestation of this phenomenon, the anger also sinks deep into mainstream society.
Tags: politics; local government; homeschool; education; tax; school; anit-government; activist