Challenging the assumptions behind
the home education movement.
Not exact matches
Personal religious experience, the
home, other religions, church membership, missions, the Scriptures, doctrine, Christian action, the ecumenical
movement, church history, Methodist heritage, evangelism, and Christian
education — each of these is considered and thoughtfully interpreted from the Christian viewpoint, book by book.
The
homes and family were basically that the only spheres were women could play significant roles in early judaism.4 The dominant impression left by our early Jewish sources is of a very patriarchal society that limited women's roles and functions to the
home, and severely restricted: (1) their rights of inheritance, (2) their choice of relationships, (3) their ability to pursue a religious
education or fully participate in the synagogue, and (4) their freedom of
movement.5
Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental
education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (
movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher
education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf
education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (
home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.
As a pioneer for a homeschooling
movement, Mary Pride is best known for her written works that encourage
home education, offers instruction on starting
home...
As a pioneer for a homeschooling
movement, Mary Pride is best known for her written works that encourage
home education, offers instruction on starting
home based programs, and sets standards for teaching.
CLASS, an independent and non-denominational K — 12 Christian
home education program, is a pioneer of the modern
home school
movement and has helped well over 100,000 families to get started — and succeed — in
home schooling.
There are five phases within the 20 - year growth period that illustrate the fluid nature of
home education as a social
movement.
This article examines the evolving milieu of
home education since 1970 by briefly surveying the
home - school
movement in the broader historical context.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited a historic
home in Fayetteville to unveil a bipartisan bill aimed at promoting
education about the women's suffrage
movement on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Driven by anger at
education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a
movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children
home from school, rather than sit for state tests.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited a historic
home in Fayetteville on Friday to unveil a bipartisan bill aimed at promoting
education about the women's suffrage
movement on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Though parents and tutors have been teaching children in the
home for centuries, in the late 1960s and 1970s there emerged for the first time in the United States a political
movement that adopted this practice as a radical, countercultural critique of the public
education system.
You'd think that California, the
home of Silicon Valley, would be at the forefront of the
movement to harness technology in boosting K - 12
education.
Home schooling clearly continues to be a political (and other)
movement because its advocates know they must labor to keep fundamental parental rights over the
education and upbringing of children recognized and protected from statist academics and government violation.
Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive
education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter
movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at
home schooling (2009).
Jen also continued to build a
movement by growing a community engagement team that visited nearly 50,000
homes across Connecticut, trained hundreds of volunteers and grew new alliances with faith leaders,
education, business and civil rights organizations.
As a former
home - school parent / advocate, I wanted to be a part of a
movement that provided additional FREE excellent
education opportunities outside of the traditional public school system.»
Of particular interest for parents thinking outside the mainstream approaches are the
movements of «unschooling» and «de-schooling» within
home education.
Although Kelley was never identified with the
movement, he specified before his death that the work, «Mobile Homestead» — a faithful re-creation of his childhood ranch - style
home that will sit in a once - vacant lot behind the museum — should not be an art location in any traditional sense but a small social - services site, with possible additional roles as space for music and the museum's
education programs.
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Since the 1975 passage of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (Public Law 94 - 142), which ensures that all children with disabilities have available to them a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment, there has been a growing movement to deliver services to children within their homes, schools, and com
Education Act (Public Law 94 - 142), which ensures that all children with disabilities have available to them a free and appropriate
education in the least restrictive environment, there has been a growing movement to deliver services to children within their homes, schools, and com
education in the least restrictive environment, there has been a growing
movement to deliver services to children within their
homes, schools, and communities.