K through 12: Homeschooling

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What are Homeschools Doing to Educate Children

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What are Homeschools Doing to Educate Children

Thesis statement . Parents and educators can learn by examining the educational methods used in homeschools for children of elementary school age

. There are different reasons parents have for choosing to homeschool their children , and the reasons influence the methods and materials parents choose . The purpose of the proposed is to investigate homeschools that have been created by parents differing in their motives for creating these schools p

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Title of . Based on American Psychological Style (APA , 2003 5 the opening introductory section begins after the title (Level 1 heading ,

. 113 , and does not have a subheading (p . 16 . In one or two paragraphs , this section summarizes the and rationale for the br

Reasons for and Methods of Homeschooling Children (Level 2 , APA ,

. 113

Religion (Level , 4 , APA ,

. 113

Imposing more rigorous standards (Level 4

Using cognitive developmental theories (Level 4

Summary (Level 3 , APA ,

. 113

Discussion (Level 1

References (Level 1

Example Article

APA Citation

Isenberg , E . J (2007 . What have we learned about homeschooling Peabody Journal

of Research , 82 , 387-409

Summary

Isenberg (2007 ) noted that while more than 1 million children are receiving homeschooling , the number includes a mixture of children who also spend some concurrent time in regular schools and also may be homeschooled intermittently , for example , being homeschooled one year going to a public or private school the next , and then being homeschooled another year . He also noted that there are serious problems in the ways that reasons for homeschooling have been categorized . One obvious category is religion ' where those who are 'fervently religious ' evangelical Protestants (frequently Baptists or Pentecostals . [have] a belief that local schools teach a curriculum objectionable to their fundamentalist religion (p . 388 However , no more than 25 of children are homeschooled for this reason However , except for a small percentage of parents who homeschool a child with special needs , the remainder either are lumped together into an educational- reason ' category or by ambiguous reasons such as to provide a better education ' or a better learning environment Although not noted in Isenberg (2007 , one has to examine research on individual schools to distinguish between the methods used by parents who want their children to learn more (e .g , so that by the time they enter middle school , they can recite the dates of every major war since the beginning of recorded history ) and those who do not have access to the rare private and charter schools that use methods based upon sound findings in the cognitive developmental literature

Reference (excluding Isenberg , referenced above

American Psychological Association (2003 . Publication manual (5th ed . Washington

DC : American Psychological Association PAGE

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