Sunday, October 09, 2005
10:00 PM

Which is the Better Classroom?: "Homeschooling came into focus in the late 20th century but is still a relatively seldom used method of educating children. As of 2003, 1.1 million children in the United States are were homeschooled (2.2% of the school age population), up from approximately 850,000 in 1999 (only 1.7% of the school-age population). Those who have been through the homeschooling experience, however, are usually firm defenders of its educational merits and sometimes even have the documentation to back it up. There are those who oppose the homeschool movement, though. Some argue that a responsible citizen should participate in the improvement of the public school system instead of 'taking the easy way out' and abandoning it, while others emphasize the professional qualifications of public school instructors. As both the public/private and homeschool environments implement more of today's technology, which classroom has the upper hand?"

(Via Kuro5hin.org.)