Acceleration: A Case Study of Home Schooling
while special withdrawal programs are usually broad-based in approach and allow students to leave their regular class for a specified amount of time for special instruction with a resource teacher, they may not meet the needs of an extremely gifted child or be relevant to his or her talent areas. Can home schooling provide the type of accelerated learning needed by some gifted students?.
Janice Leroux, Ph.D. and David Bell, B.A., B.Ed., Volume 13, No. 1, 1998, p. 1-6
CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR HOME SCHOOLING EXPERIENCES
If a major parental motivation for home educating children is to address their unique individual needs (Lines, 1987; Van Galen, 1987), then one important measure of whether or not those needs have been met is home schooled children's perceptions of their educational experience. It is for this reason that this study investigates the effect of parents' motivations for home schooling on children's perceptions of their home schooling experience. .
Don C. Adams, Ph.D. and Shannon R. Purdy, M.Ed., Volume 12, No. 3, 1996, p. 1-8
WILL THE SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE STRENGTHEN FAMILIES? : SOME EVIDENCE FROM FERTILITY PATTERNS
I have been asked to address the contention that a separation of school and state will result in the strengthening of families and the improvement of parenthood..
Alan Carlson, Ph.D., Volume 12, No. 2, 1996, p. 1-5
CREATIVITY IN HOME SCHOOLED CHILDREN
By teaching their children at home, home schooling parents would seem to have the opportunity to develop a learning environment in which creativity could be encouraged. Indeed, these parents often cite an unstructured atmosphere, a flexible curriculum, and activities based on the child’s interests as particular advantages of home schooling (Mayberry, 1993)..
Richard G. Medlin, Ph.D., Volume 12, No. 1, 1996, p. 7-13
PHYSICAL FITNESS AND ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTICS OF HOME SCHOOLED CHILDREN
It is clear that researchers, as well as parents, have been very interested in their home schooled children's total development—academic (cognitive), social and emotional (affective), and spiritual. However, one very important part of the whole development model that needs further examination is the physical..
Dale DeVoe, Ph.D., Cathy Kennedy, Ph.D., and Crystal A. Lloyd, M.S., Volume 12, No. 1, 1996, p. 1-6
HOME SCHOOLING: WHAT’S HARD? WHAT HELPS?
The purpose of this research was to identify what home schooling parents find most difficult about teaching their children at home, what sources of support are available to them, and which of these they find most helpful..
Richard G. Medlin, Volume 11, No. 4, p. 1-6
HOME SCHOOLING: AN EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION
Programmed instruction was thought to be dead—and home schooling a novelty with a short life expectancy. The call for educational reform, however, has made these concepts more than a jumble of unrelated ideas..
Robert W. Butler, Volume 11, No. 4, 1995, p. 7-16