homeschool

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home·school

 (hōm′sko͞ol′)
v. home·schooled, home·school·ing, home·schools
v.tr.
To instruct (a pupil, for example) in an educational program outside of established schools, especially in a home.
v.intr.
To provide educational instruction in a homeschool.
n.
A school operated outside established educational institutions, especially in a home.

home′school′er n.
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Should the decree leave that impression, it will be difficult later to overcome the perception that the parents agreed not to homeschool. Once again, a future court will be hesitant to change the status quo without a substantial change in circumstances.
Lauderdale, FL, the company is comprised of two divisions with four core programs, its homeschool division (Time4Learning and Time4Writing) and its elementary school division (VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us).
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"Districts have become increasingly attentive to their homeschool population," says Robert Kunzman, an Indiana University education professor who heads the International Center for Home Education Research.
The choice to homeschool can be an unnerving decision.
Soon, though, the choice to homeschool morphed into rigid fundamentalism.
Mothers overwhelmingly bear the burden of the "immense emotional, temporal, and physical workloads required to homeschool," Lois explains.
Participants for this study included 17 public-school graduates, 26 private-school graduates, and 21 homeschool graduates.
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Gandhi's quote is actually the inspiration behind the upcoming No Place Like Home Philippine Homeschool Convention (PHC) 2019.
Perhaps the main accomplishment of the homeschool revolution was the legalization of home education in the late 1980s and early 1990s by every state in the country.
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