However, DOE continued to approve Community Service hours
for home educated students for the 2011 - 12 academic year as they had in the past, but now they have explicit legal authority to do it.
The House and Senate companion bills contain language which will provide special education services
for home educated students.
As a result of this statutory requirement, the date for «registering intent»
for home educated students is the first day of practice for each sport's season.»
It was set up specifically for online courses
for home educated students, both in Key Stage 3 (usually age 11 - 14) and for GCSEs.
Thus it is important
for any home educated student considering further education to start researching as early as possible.
Not exact matches
Although college -
educated people are more likely to have the financial wherewithal to buy a
home than those without a college education, the mounting rate of default on
student loans is hurting young people's credit ratings - and making it much harder
for them to buy a
home or condominium.
This becomes a greater problem when a
student then goes
home and jumps onto all those sites with her email address
[email protected] and schools are then blamed
for not
educating students in better Internet safety.
Research that painstakingly tries to separate out the actual effects of schools clearly has value, but it is important to bear in mind that, in the absence of random assignment of
students to schools (such as occurs via charter school lotteries), families that choose
for their children to be
educated in their
home (through virtual schools) are likely to be very different from other families.
The most recent data from the National Center
for Education Statistics indicate that, as of 2003, 1.1 million American
students were being
educated at
home, up from 850,000 in 1999.
Educator Joe Nathan,
for example, supports a pair of charter schools in the Twin Cities that
educate mostly Somali and Oromo
students, because the schools provide a space where children can retain their
home language and knowledge of their
home culture.59 Likewise, Letitia Basford's qualitative study of Somali youth concluded that «attending a culturally specific charter school promotes positive intercultural competence in which
students are able to build a good self - concept and find comfort in who they are as East African immigrants, as Muslims, and as American citizens.»
The deliberations have addressed various topics such as whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to
home educate their children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use
for public school teachers, (d) homeschool
students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of
home -
educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in
home - based education with their children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).
The Cape's two charter schools
educate their
students for significantly less than most local
home - town school districts.
However, it is also important
for home education leaders to
educate their college officials about the rights and laws pertaining to
home education
students.
ESA programs put a majority of the funds allocated
for each
student into a savings account
for parents to then spend at a private school, on materials to
educate children at
home or on supplemental tutoring and educational therapies
for students with special needs.
The process
for reporting BF Community Service hours requires
home education
students to submit the hours through the
student's
home education contact at the school district where he or she is registered as a
home -
educated student for approval by the FDOE.
High - quality tutoring can meet each
student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible
for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps
for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every
student with an
educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at
home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24
For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps
For students who,
for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps
for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at
home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25