Around 20,000 students are homeschooling in Australia. It's a different form of schooling to learning from home while schools are shut due to COVID-19. But homeschooling does provide some tips.
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Instead of insisting on homeschooling primary-age kids, free play can help them learn and has benefits for physical and mental health.
Many school kids may be studying from home as their schools have closed or they need to isolate themselves for other reasons. Parents won't need to be teachers, but more teachers' aids.
Homeschooling can be worth it if parents or guardians who choose to educate their children this way know the challenges. Here are the three main ones.
Do homeschooled children miss out on quality education from trained teachers? Research says no – homeschooled students do just as well, if not better, than those who go to school.
For Fabiano Caruana, the path to the world chess championship veered away from formal schooling. FAMU professor and chess writer Daaim Shabazz retraces the young grandmaster's educational journey.
What Betsy DeVos, an advocate of school-choice initiatives and President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, as well as the rest of us need to know about cyber charter schools.
The number of homeschoolers in America is growing. Who are these new homeschoolers and what's the impact on the public school system?
Summer is not an idyllic time for all. Two researchers who are black and are parents to two black children describe why they feel the weight of the summer.
Homeschooling regulations vary from state to state. And loopholes in these regulations could excuse parents from actually reporting the results.
Children educated at home by their parents are not on a register, nor subject to an annual visit.
Conservative religious families turn to homeschooling as a way to ensure that their children will grow up to be like them. Does it work?
A scholar finds black parents are homeschooling kids to protect them from racism and what they see as a Eurocentric education.
When it comes to the topic of conservative Christian home schooling, the term “politically tolerant” usually doesn’t spring to mind. Even while the home schooling phenomenon continues to grow and diversify…
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