Sentences with phrase «of children educated at home»

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She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

The critics found themselves so alarmed, of course, because now politically, culturally, and religiously conservative parents were educating their children at home and rejecting the influence of a system in which the critics — so many of them former countercultural types themselves — were heavily invested, and from which, as a Marxist would note, so many of them drew their salaries.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuChildren: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $ 24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school - aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuchildren now being educated at home and provides reassuring....

But what the research I've described here makes clear is that intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children — by educating them better in school, helping their parents support them better at home, or, ideally, some combination of the two — is the most effective and promising anti-poverty strategy we have.

Why I home - school my children (Guardian, UK, 07-01-11)-- a teacher of fifteen years decided to educate her sons at home; she explains her reasons and how it works for her.

In an idle moment, he wondered what he would present to the LEA if he were home educating his children at some point in the future, if they demanded some kind of learning plan for the year.

In most English - speaking countries of the world, parents may choose to educate their children at home.

Add to this paradox that we're educating people's children, a lot of whom are sending their older child (ren) to school while choosing to stay at home, but would totally disapprove of having you nurse in front of their child.

Having something go wrong while a child is at home alone is a parent's worst nightmare, said Pam Guth, a Glendale Heights junior high school teacher who is educating youngsters in «Home Alone Safety» as part of the Kids On Campus program at the College of Du Page, Glen Elhome alone is a parent's worst nightmare, said Pam Guth, a Glendale Heights junior high school teacher who is educating youngsters in «Home Alone Safety» as part of the Kids On Campus program at the College of Du Page, Glen ElHome Alone Safety» as part of the Kids On Campus program at the College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn.

If you're just starting to consider home education, or have recently taken your children out of school to educate them at home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your children to learn, whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around home education, whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».

The southeast of England has the highest ratio of home educated children in England with Medway in Kent topping the charts with roughly 1 in 100 children opting to study at home.

Rutland has the lowest ratio of home educated children; 0.08 % of children between the age of 5 - 16 receive their education at home.

While we tend think of «homeschooling» only as the commitment to educate school - aged kids at home, the truth of the matter is that EVERY child is homeschooled.

Parents seeking to home educate children registered at a special school, however, must obtain the consent of the local authority to withdraw their child from the school or, if that authority refuse to give consent, without a direction of the Welsh Ministers.

HSC provides information, support, legislative outreach, activities, and a yearly conference for all California families educating their children at home, regardless of how they're doing it.

For the past couple of years the children — a boy and a girl — have been educated at home.

Remember that all the problems of educating at home have been solved already, by home schooling families who have produced fine highly educated children, many who have gone on to university, and who are working successfully in all areas of life.

Some parents prefer to educate their children full time at home while others seek varying periods of part - time schooling, irrespective of their child's age.

To put some other worries at rest; educating out of school is legal, you don't have to be a teacher, your kids do make friends, there is support, you will not be alone or the only ones, children do learn, and finally home educating does work!

If you are the stay - at - home mother of small children, and / or a home educating mother, then that is your first priority.

However, case law (Philips vg Brown (1980) unreported) established that an Local Authority may make informal enquiries of parents who are educating their children at home to establish that a suitable education is being provided.»

«Flexi - schooling» or «flexible school attendance» is an arrangement between the parent and the school where the child is registered at school in the normal way but where the child attends the school only part time; the rest of the time the child is home - educated (effectively on authorised absence from school).

5.6 «Flexi - schooling» or «flexible school attendance» is an arrangement between the parent and the school where the child is registered at school and attends the school only part time; the rest of the time the child is home educated (on authorised absence from school).

They have no right to stop you from educating your child at home, unless they believe that no education of any kind is happening.

Finally, Joan Roberts, is a former home economics teacher, inspired us with her vision of a curriculum for the high school and college level to educate men and women of reproductive age to eat traditional nutrient - dense foods for at least six months prior to conception in order to fortify their bodies to give birth to optimally healthy children.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is reportedly preparing tougher regulation for home education after it was revealed that the exact number of children being educated at home was unknown.

The more long - standing idea of allowing parents to educate their children at home draws somewhat higher levels of support.

It was largely limited to choosing to live in a particular district, enrolling a child in a private school, or educating the child at home, all of which require a substantial investment of resources, fiscal or otherwise.

Our schools educate millions of children who speak a language other than English at home, who have disabilities, or who are hoping to be the first in their families to attend college.

Responses to Freedom of Information requests from 190 local authorities found 36,609 children were educated at home.

After the article was published, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District reversed its earlier ruling, which said that parents must be certified teachers before they can educate their own children at home, and recognized home schooling as a legal «species» of private school education.

Announced by School Systems Minister Lord Agnew, the announcement will support the families of the estimated 45,500 children that are educated at home, providing parents and local councils with strengthened guidance so both understand their rights and responsibilities.

Minister for School Systems Lord Agnew said: «Across the country there are thousands of dedicated parents who are doing an excellent job of educating their children at home, and many selfless volunteers working for clubs and organisations that help to enrich children's education outside of school.

Child behavioural patterns begin earlier than we realise so as we begin trying to educate them at home and school, towards the correct kind of behaviour we need the right tools to do so, that appeal to them too.

According to the latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the number of K - 12 children educated at home increased from 1.09 million in 2003 to 1.77 million in 2012, which is 3.4 percent of the school population.

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.

A spokesman for the Welsh government said: «We recognise that we are currently unable to provide reliable figures on how many children are educated at home and that is one of the reasons why we will be consulting on a database as well as statutory guidance for elective home education.»

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.25

For first marriages, for example, marriages are less likely to break up, and more likely to succeed, if the wife grew up in a two - parent home, is Asian, was 20 years of age or over at marriage, did not have any children when she got married, is college - educated, has more income, or has any religious affiliation.»

At the first visit, dental assistants have an excellent opportunity to educate the parents or caregivers on good home oral hygiene practices and how to reduce the risk of their child developing oral disease and / or dental decay.

If you choose to educate your child at home, the Home Education Network may be a good source of information for home, the Home Education Network may be a good source of information for Home Education Network may be a good source of information for you.

Some of the factors that are considered are: the length of your marriage; your age; occupation; amount and sources of your income; your ability to find a job; the contribution made by one of you to help educate or help develop the career of the other one; whether you or your spouse interrupted your career to stay at home to take care of your children, etc..

Teaching your child at home Information on the rights of parents to educate their children at home and how home education is regulated and assessed.

[I must point out that it should be a «seemingly obvious proposition» that children do best in one stable, permanent, stress - free and financially secure child - centered home, with one (or two) authoritative, loving parents (married or not), preferably well - educated and well - adjusted, whose focus is on selflessly and cooperatively contributing to and optimizing the child's environment and opportunies — and that it is irrelevant, except to the extent on a case - by - case basis that this indirectly impacts those real factors that affect child wellbeing, whether the parental captain at the helm of this ship consists of one or two parents, biological parents, or even heterosexual parents.

Dependent spouses are often highly - educated, sophisticated people who have chosen to stay - at - home to raise children but not share in the management of the finances, and so confidence level is often the biggest stumbling block to success in mediation.

The Fannie Mae National Housing Survey shows that four of the biggest reasons people buy a home have nothing at all to do with money: They want a place to raise and educate their children, a place where their family will feel safe, to have plenty of living space, and to have control over the space.

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