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2. Homeschooling in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Originally, homeschooling in the United States was practiced mainly underground or in rural areas. In the 1970s, several books called attention to homeschooling, and more families began to homeschool their children. [3] As of 2012, about 1.8 million students were homeschooled. [4] In 2016, this number rose to 2.3 million. [5]

3. John Holt (educator) - Wikipedia

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   This was translated into ways in which parents who had no experience in education could learn to teach their children on their own in a homeschooling setting. In 1981, the first edition of Holt's most noteworthy book on unschooling, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Manual on Homeschooling, was published. This book, as noted in the first lines of ...

4. K–12 education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   There are (as of 2001) about 3.6 million children in each grade in the United States. [8] A fifth-grade class in Paramus, New Jersey, c. 1957. Typically, the curriculum in public elementary education is determined by individual school districts or county school system. The school district selects curriculum guides and textbooks that reflect a ...

5. Homeschooling - Wikipedia

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   Hybrid homeschooling or flex-school [27] is a form of homeschooling in which children split their time between homeschool and a more traditional schooling environment like a school. [61] The number of students who participated in hybrid homeschooling increased during the COVID-19 pandemic .

6. Deschooling - Wikipedia

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   Deschooling is credited to Ivan Illich, who felt that the traditional schooling children received needed to be reconstructed. [10] Illich believed that schools contain a "hidden curriculum" that causes learning to align with grades and accreditation rather than with important skills. [11]

7. Helene Nomsa Brath - Wikipedia

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   [4] [5] As an educational reformer, and advocating within the educational system Nomsa turned to homeschooling, and homeschooled her 5th child. He scored very high in the SAT test. After homeschooling her 5th child he went back into the public school system, and attended the, Bronx High School of Science. Which was one of New York City's ...