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Article: Home Schooling
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- Dictionary of American History
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HOME SCHOOLING
HOME SCHOOLING,
the practice of educating one's own children, saw dramatic growth over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Home schoolers numbered about 15,000 in the 1970s; by 1999 850,000 children were learning at home. Long the normative practice on the American frontier, parent-directed education was almost entirely eclipsed with the accomplishment of universal compulsory schooling in the early twentieth century. But in the wake of the "anti-Establishment" cultural ferment of the 1960s and 1970s, home schooling reemerged, championed by advocates across a wide ideological spectrum.
The contemporary home school movement has a dual history. One branch began ...
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