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ERIC Number: EJ580759
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Home-Schoolers: Battling for Freedom.
Farris, Mike
Crisis in Education, p47-48 Feb 1998
The academic success of home schooling has been repeatedly documented. There are now 1.23 million children being home schooled in the United States Home schoolers have been a key part of the coalition fighting nationalized testing. They have also been disproportionately subject to child abuse investigations by social workers. As a result, they have become very active politically. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Schooling, National Competency Tests, Nontraditional Education, Parent Rights, Parents as Teachers, Politics of Education, Standardized Tests
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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