The History of Home schooling and the impact on todays educational structure

Running Head : Homeschooling

The History of Homeschooling and its Impact in Today 's Educational Structure

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It is very important for all children to be educated properly . There are public and private schools all over the state that provides education for the children . However , some parents would choose Home schooling over the two alternatives because of several reasons . Home Schooling has been a part of the educational system ever since the

British Colonial Era This would show the meaning of Home Schooling . The Home Schooling History would also be discussed together with its impact in society . The advantages and disadvantages of doing home schooling would also be discussed in the latter part of the .The History of Homeschooling and its Impact in Today 's Educational Structure

Definition of Homeschooling

Home Schooling can be referred to as the educating the children at home by the parent as a teacher , rather than sending them to school (Educational Encylopedia , State University .com , 2007 ) There are some generalizations made regarding homeschooling . According to Educational Encyclopedia (2007 , since the instructor of the children is the parents , the one responsible for the homeschooling is usually not working

According to Tim Lambert , the president of the Texas Home Coalition there is already an increasing number of children being home schooled per year . It is estimated to be at 15 percent per year in the United States . Homeschooled children to-date is hard to estimate according to Lambert . This is so because there is an irregular documentation of the population . From a report of the U .S . Department of Education in 1999 it can be estimated that there are over 850 ,000 children who are home-schooled

Examinations are used by the government to measure the achievement scores and capabilities of the Home Schooled Children . A research of Lawrence Rudner showed several findings regarding the demographics and achievement levels of the Home-schooled children . This research had used a survey for the demographics and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and Tests of Achievement and Proficiency to conclude on the scores of the home-schooled children , the public schooled children and the private-schooled . However , the research cannot be used as an ultimate tool to compare and give concrete conclusions about the population of home-schooled children . However , since there is still no available data that had studied the population and since the research is one of the initial studies made for home-schooled children , it can be use as an initial assessment of the home-schooled population . Based on the results , scores of the home-schooled children are relatively high median score of the population shows that the scores are in the 70th and 80th percentile . One fourth of the population of home-schooled children are enrolled one or more grade in advance as compared to the public and private schooled children . It had also been found out that the parents of home schooled children have had a formal...