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American School of Correspondence. Coordinates: 41.586919°N 87.563254°W. The American School of Correspondence is a private American distance education middle school, high school and college preparatory institution in Lansing, Illinois. It was founded in 1897 and is one of the oldest and largest distance education institutions in the world.
t. e. Homeschooling constitutes the education of about 3.4% of U.S. students (approximately two million students) as of 2012. [needs update] The number of homeschoolers in the United States has increased significantly over the past few decades since the end of the 20th century. In the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled that parents have ...
Homeschooling or home schooling (American English), also known as home education or elective home education (EHE) (British English), [1] is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school. Usually conducted by a parent, tutor, or online teacher, many homeschool families use less formal, more personalized ...
American Heritage School, July 2012. AHS serves 1,200 students in grades K–12 on campus with approximately 5,000 students participating in distance education and homeschool courses offered by American Heritage Worldwide, the school's distance education program. In 2022, American Heritage opened a new campus in downtown Salt Lake City that ...
Society portal. v. t. e. John Caldwell Holt (April 14, 1923 – September 14, 1985) was an American author and educator, a proponent of homeschooling (specifically the unschooling approach), and a pioneer in youth rights theory. After a six-year stint teaching elementary school in the 1950s, Holt wrote the book How Children Fail (1964), which ...
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The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a United States -based organization that seeks to advance the freedom of parents to homeschool their children. [1] HSLDA describes itself as a " Christian organization." [1] HSLDA is organized as a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, located in Purcellville, Virginia, which is also the home ...
The percentage of the school-age population that was homeschooled increased from 1.7 percent in 1999 to 2.9 percent in 2007. The increase in the percentage of homeschooled students from 1999 to 2007 represents a 74 percent relative increase over the 8-year period and a 42 percent relative increase since 2003.