Archive for the ‘Home Schooling’ Category

Advantages of Home Schooling over Public Schooling  

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Homeschooling has gone from relatively nothing in the 1970s to around two million homeschoolers in 2009. With this increase in children being taught at home there has been an increase in scrutiny on whether these children are receiving an education that is comparable with those that attend public/private schools. The biggest debates involve social interactions and whether the parents are qualified to teach their children at a reasonable academic level.

Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research surveyed 11,739 homeschooling students and their families from all 50 states through 15 independent testing services during 2008-2009, these studies have shown some startling results.

In all subjects the children outperformed their public school counterparts, in reading, math, language, science, and social studies for the public schools the scores where in the 50 percentile, while for homeschooled students they ranked in the 84 to 89 percentile.

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Home Schooling that You Must Know

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Home school is one alternative model to study other than at school. General understanding that education is a conscious process, organized and directed by parents / family at home or elsewhere, where the learning process takes place in a conducive and pleasant atmosphere with the aim that each child’s unique potential to develop optimally.

Home school this term refers to children’s learning activities are conducted at home by parents or other adults at home. Not just learn, but a systematic and structured learning refers to a method and curriculum standards.

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