Films for the Humanities and Sciences - There's No Place Like Home: The Return to Homeschooling

There’s No Place Like Home: The Return to Homeschooling

Recent statistics indicate that more than two million students in the U.S. are taught at home. Why are so many parents opting to educate their children themselves? Are they wary of violence in public schools? Do they lack confidence in what they perceive as a one-size-fits-all approach to learning? Or are they intent on adding a fourth R, religion, to the traditional three? This program examines the homeschooling phenomenon with Chris Klicka, director of the Center for Home Schooling; two pairs of parent-teachers; and two students, currently in college, who were homeschooled. (30 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10652
Copyright date: ©2000
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-9881-5

Part of the Series : Alternative Education: Choices Beyond the Public School System


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