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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

  By Lynn Schnaiberg

  Education Week

  1996

• Learning at Home: Does it pass the test?

  More and more parents are taking over their children's education with help from the Internet and each other. But critics worry kids aren't getting what they need.

  Tags: home schooling; home schoolers; U.S. Department of Education; unschooling

  By Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert

  Newsweek Magazine (New York, NY)

  1998

• Foreclosing on despair

  In a five-month investigation of the foreclosure business, Denver Post finds that homeowners and tenants have been victimized by foreclosure investors who forged house deeds and other documents. Some people who signed agreements, hoping to save their houses, soon lost the property, the story reveals. At the same time investors have been making double or triple more than what they originally spent to get a deed. The investigation finds that most often the object of fraud have been low-income and unschooled residents, as well as minorities.

  Tags: loans; investors; houses; minorities; creditors; homeowners; mortgage; CAR

  By David Olinger

  Denver Post

  2001