Each year more than a million children are homeschooled in the United States, and that number is steadily growing. While some parents believe homeschooling is an ideal situation, others fear that a student's education can be severely hindered in such an environment. When making a decision about your ...
The Educational Case Against Vouchers
1. Student achievement ought to be the driving force behind any education reform initiative. See what research says about the relationship between vouchers and student achievement.
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I have a very liberal view of education . I know many kids who have done very well being home schooled, attending private schools , charter schools, and public school . No two children learn the same way. so it's wonderful that there are so many types of education available to find a good ...
The HomeSchool Association of California has been around since 1987 when a small group of Bay Area homeschooling moms got together to start what was then called the Northern California Homeschool Association. Since then we've grown to a statewide organization. Those original families have moved on to new life stages, and passed their vision on to new members, that vision being an inclusive homeschooling organization dedicated to the support of homeschooling families in all their many flavors. We hold to the belief that homeschooling families are the ones best able to make their own educational choices. We are a non-profit volunteer organization.
As the statewide affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the CFT represents faculty and other school employees in public and private schools and colleges, from early childhood through higher education.
What's a homeschooling mom to do when her youngest child heads off to college?
For Ann Zeise, whose son Scott just finished up his sophomore year at the University of Hawaii [2004], the homeschooling adventure is not over yet. She still reigns supreme at her authoritative Web site, sharing her widely admired expertise about homeschooling resources.
Drop by her popular site, A to Z Home's Cool, to find almost any kind of homeschooling information, but first heed the posted WARNING: "Before entering this homeschool site, be sure small children are safely occupied, you have gone to the bathroom, and have plenty of snacks on hand. This is a large education site with lots to read and do!"
With over 1,000 pages on the site linked to resources throughout the Web, the warning is apt. Yet Zeise manages the site on her own, from home, and she likes it that way. "The advantage of not working with other people," she says, "is that I can just do whatever I want."
Her judgment about "what to do" has proved sound. At the time this of this interview, the site had over 11 million unique visitors since she started tracking visitors in 1999, and now [2008] gets over 800,000 page views per month. On average, each visitor views about 2.5 pages per visit, which is a very high average in the Web world. In Web terms, her site is "sticky"-its wide variety of compelling content helps to keep visitors on the site just a bit longer.
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