What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?

Isenberg, Eric

doi:10.1080/01619560701312996

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“…Research carried out in the United States (U.S.) regarding the academic outcomes of students who learn at home show the success of this educational modality through the high scores they obtain on state standardized tests, 1 higher than the average scores of students enrolled in public and private schools (Isenberg, 2007). Rothermel (2012) pointed to other studies that find homeschoolers to be at least equal to and in some cases significantly better than their peers at school.…”

Section: Da Vid Publishing D Family Involvement Autonomy and Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each of these competencies has its own content, although they are related to each 716 other. Basic competencies are those that "young people should have developed by the end of compulsory education in order to reach personal achievement, be an active citizen, join adult life and be able to develop permanent learning throughout life" (Ministry of Education and Science, 2006;2007).…”

Section: Competencies As a Basis For Responsibility And Lifelong Learmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Family Involvement, Autonomy, and Social Competency in Homeschooling

Sotés-Elizalde¹,

Urpí²

2015

UCER-B

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Educational agents' demand on family involvement as a key to improve learning achievements raises home education model up to the top ranking of learning modalities, meanwhile, educational policies go to great pains to overcome school crisis. Family involvement affects children learning as much in the individual aspects as in the social participation into a world characterised by diversity. Consequently, a reflexive correspondence between individual diversity and social diversity is promoted for the improvement of personal development and social family context. In this way, family involvement and diversity are home-school keys to develop competencies; specially focussing on the autonomy and personal initiative competency and on the social and civic competency, which are included in the official curriculum of the educational system in Spain. Finally, we must emphasize the positive effects of service learning on the development of social competency of homeschoolers and the effects of technology on the development of autonomy.

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Section: Da Vid Publishing D Family Involvement Autonomy and Socialmentioning

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Section: Competencies As a Basis For Responsibility And Lifelong Learmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Involvement, Autonomy, and Social Competency in Homeschooling

Sotés-Elizalde¹,

Urpí²

2015

UCER-B

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“…One of the reasons for this issue is that each state in the Union has a unique way in terms of collecting data and regulating home-schooling guidelines. Those who elect home-schooling have most commonly cited one of three reasons for their choice to educate their child or children through home-schooling: a poor learning environment in school (31%), religious reasons (30%), and a lack of fit with the capabilities of special education to gifted students (31%) (Isenberg, 2007). Then, establishing an accurate count of how many students are being home-schooled is not able to be reported with high accuracy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some students who are receiving home-school are not reported to the government and researchers. This is a practice referred to as underground home-schooling (Isenberg, 2007). This adds complexity to the awareness of levels of students in a home-school setting although it has been estimated that from one to two million children are learning at home (IES/NCES, 2017; Ray, 2011).…”

Section: Complexities Of Data Collection For Students Who Are Home-scmentioning

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Today’s Choices for Selecting a School: What is the Emerging Story?

Ferrara¹

2017

UCER-B

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Today, "equity" and "a quality education" are at the forefront of education conversations at the family dinner table, the local diner, and the editorial page of the newspaper. Why? Local and national efforts are increasing to meet students' needs academically and developmentally. Families strive to address their children's needs educationally through a relevant support system couched in a well-matched learning environment. This paper provides an overview of possible ways that students and their families can select an education setting that creates this broad match, more commonly identified as school choice. These choices include but are not limited to private charter schools, public charter schools, public schools, and home-schools as well as single-gender schools. This study will summarize fundamental differences among various learning environments and conclude with a set of questions to analyze what indeed is the best environmental match for each child's learning needs.

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“…At best, we arrive at categories which must be broad enough to encompass the multitude of experiences that they claim to capture. Yet, their very broadness undermines their usefulness (Isenberg, 2007). At the heart of this difficulty lies the fact that the homeschooling population"s heterogeneity has considerably increased over the past decades.…”

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The Search for School Safety and the African American Homeschooling Experience

Musumunu

Mazama

2015

JCIE

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Interest in homeschooling has increased over the last decade, as what was once perceived as a marginal development has turned into a significant phenomenon. There has been, in recent years, a noticeable surge in African American involvement in the homeschooling movement as well. However, there continues to be a general paucity of research on the motivations of homeschooling Black parents. It is the purpose of this essay (1) to present empirical evidence regarding African American motivations for homeschooling; and (2) more specifically, to explore how parental concerns for safety are leading African American families to homeschooling. These concerns, the authors contend, bring to the fore a series of disturbing circumstances and preoccupations that are specific to African Americans.

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What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?

Cited by 117 publications

References 12 publications

Family Involvement, Autonomy, and Social Competency in Homeschooling

Family Involvement, Autonomy, and Social Competency in Homeschooling

Today’s Choices for Selecting a School: What is the Emerging Story?

The Search for School Safety and the African American Homeschooling Experience

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