Posts Tagged ‘ North Carolina homeschooling ’

NC Homeschools Multiply

An article on homeschooling’s growth in North Carolina, linked from the front page of the Raliegh, NC News-Observer: The number of home schools has steadily increased across the state since home-schooling became legal in 1985, going from 381 schools that year to nearly 43,316 schools today, according to a recent report released by the...
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North Carolina Homeschooling

Interesting news article highlighting the history of homeschooling in North Carolina, from the Lincoln-Tribune: RALEIGH — When Rod Helder became the second director of the state’s Division of Non-Public Education in 1985, he inherited a small staff and a unique arrangement for state regulation of private schools. Under the previous director, the state’s confrontational...
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Homeschools more popular

From The McDowell News, McDowell County, North Carolina, comes this article, tellingly titled Homeschools more popular than private schools in McDowell: More kids are homeschooled in McDowell. Although the state has not released its figures for the 2009-10 school year, in 2008-09, 293 homeschools in McDowell educated 491 kids, more than twice the number...
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North Carolina-Homeschooling trend on the rise

Reports: Home school trend on the rise in N.C. By Brock Letchworth The Daily Reflector August 05, 2009 State reports indicate that more parents are placing their kids in home schools, and some officials don’t think the trend will end soon. The annual statistical report released earlier this week by the North Carolina Division...
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North Carolina nose counting

Home-school enrollment up in Wake, state, 2 August 2008, News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina
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North Carolina task force recommends homeschool oversight beyond age of compulsory attendance

State task force: Home schools need monitoring, 29 June 2008, Rocky Mount Telegram, Rocky Mount, North Carolina A state task force that examined the death of a 4-year-old boy who died in 2006 has called for more oversight for children taught at home. The N.C. Department of Social Services made the recent recommendations in...
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Homeschool-appeal broadens

Home-made education, 24 April 2008, The Charlotte Post, Charlotte, North Carolina Angela Fulton’s children don’t have to leave their Weddington home for an education. Fulton’s children – fifth-grader Aris, fourth-grader Christian and 4-year-old Carlyle – are homeschooled, part of a growing trend among black families. “It’s not for everyone, but I know where my...
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Daytime curfew reports

Proposal could add daytime curfew for teens, 4 March 2008, WCNC, Charlotte, North Carolina … “A lot of times we get kids (truant) who have never done anything,” said Officer Jeff Miller, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. “They get out with the wrong group of people and make a bad decision.” … Police say curfew laws...
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Charlotte Observer’s second article

While reading the following article, I felt a sense of < deja vu. I guess the reporter was given a homeschooling assignment? The difference between the reporter’s two articles is that, in this article, the homeschooling is, “Not an easy thing to do.” More parents teaching their kids at home, 6 January 2007, Charlotte...
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North Carolina homeschool article

Reporting on news articles such as this, it is difficult to keep the ‘Inner Editor’ (who has a homeschooling viewpoint) from blue-penciling it from top to bottom to point out what the Editor sees as conclusions originating from a school-viewpoint. It is hard to tell if the school-viewpoint in articles of this type comes...
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