Homeschooling in the United States/Related Articles
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- See also changes related to Homeschooling in the United States, or pages that link to Homeschooling in the United States or to this page or whose text contains "Homeschooling in the United States".
Parent topics
- Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
- Homeschooling [r]: Education of school-age children in the home instead of in a school. [e]
- History of education in the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- John Caldwell Holt [r]: (1923-1985) U.S. educator who championed school reform and developed the philosophy behind "unschooling", a term which he coined in the 1970s. [e]
- Unschooling [r]: Methods of education that do not resemble schools, primarily indicating a lack of heavy reliance on textbooks or time spent at desks, often with parents aiding the child in exploring his or her interests. [e]
- Charter school [r]: (US) A publicly funded school established by parents, teachers, or interested community groups and operating independently under the terms of a contract with a local or national governmental entity. [e]
- School voucher [r]: (US) Financial aid extended to parents of school age children which can then be used to offset expenses of their children's education at any school of their choice, public or private. [e]
- McGuffey Readers [r]: A set of highly influential school textbooks used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the elementary grades in the United States. [e]
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters [r]: A 1925 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which it was decided that an Oregon state voter initiative which effectively required parents in the state to send their children to a public school was unconstitutional as it violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [e]
- Farrington v. Tokushige [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Meyer v. Nebraska [r]: 1923 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Nebraska law forbidding the teaching of modern languages other than English to young schoolchildren. [e]
- Runyon v. McCrary [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Troxel v. Granville [r]: 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Washington state law authorizing courts to grant visitation rights to children over the objections of their parents based on the child's "best interests" as interpreted by the court. [e]