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Home schooling was once a niche practice, attractive mostly to religious households dissatisfied with the secular public school system. Now, it has increased by what The Post believes might be as ...
The home-schooling mothers have invested decades in public education. Their husbands are athletic coaches and high school teachers. "We believe in the public school system," Hunt-Hart said.
This past school year, she started home-schooling several of her 19 grandchildren and the child of a friend of her daughter’s. Come September 2023, she plans to home-school seven kids, ages 3 to ...
CHICAGO -- Ibrahim Imam, 9, starts his school day at 8:30 a.m. sharp. Like other fourth-graders, he studies math, science, reading and cursive writing. He also practices Arabic and recites the ...
Texas Legislature 2023 These home-schooling moms want to create a “microschool” for Black kids. They need vouchers to make it happen.
Home schooling is now America's fastest growing form of education, but Washington Post reporter Peter Jamison notes, "It's remarkable how little oversight there is of home-schooled children." ...
It’s a tired question, made more so by home schooling’s pandemic-induced popularity. Teaching your kids at home, or in a co-op with other families, is no longer out of the ordinary.
As of September 2001, the latest date for which statistics are available, 899 Prince William County children were home-schooled. In Manassas, 115 students were home-schooled, 34 in Manassas Park ...
It’s August and many Michigan parents are in their back-to-school era. In some families, school never stopped for the summer. Their kids don’t plan on stepping foot inside a classroom.
There were nearly 480,000 home-schooled children in Texas at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, according to a data analysis by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
None of this means that home schooling isn’t a good choice for plenty of children. It only means that when it’s a bad choice, fairly often no one finds out — much less intervenes.