Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America - Little Platoons

This book explores the idea of hybrid home schools, where students attend a formal school setting for part of the week and are homeschooled the rest of the week, arguing that there are clear examples of how school choice can work for the middle class and improve civil society by challenging the existing definitions of schooling.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Homeschooling + Hybrid Homeschools Defined
Chapter 3: Hybrid Homeschool Demographics.
Chapter 4: What Do Parents Want?
Chapter 5: Religion, Family, Curriculum, and Politics
Chapter 6: Teachers, Testing, and Facilities
Chapter 7: Policy Implications.
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

About the author

Eric Wearne is associate professor with the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University.

Summary

This book explores the idea of hybrid home schools, where students attend a formal school setting for part of the week and are homeschooled the rest of the week, arguing that there are clear examples of how school choice can work for the middle class and improve civil society by challenging the existing definitions of schooling.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Wearne
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793606334
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-633-4
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; USA, EDUCATION / Home Schooling, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, Home Schooling, United States of America, USA, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies