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Article: Home Schooling and Students in Special Education: Sorting Out the Options for Parents.
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- Preventing School Failure
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Home schooling is the practice of educating children primarily at home in a family setting, with a parent or guardian as teacher (Reinhiller & Thomas, 1996). The term applies to children in the K-12 range who fall under their state's compulsory attendance laws. Although a subject of many recent popular press and educational journal attention, home schooling is not new. It was a mainstay of education when the United States was a young nation. Its popularity waned around the turn of the 20th century, largely because of urbanization, compulsory education, and the public school movement. Until the 1970s, home schooling was limited mostly to families who were geographically ...