Hybrid Homeschooling

All across the country, in traditional public, public charter, and private schools, entrepreneurial educators are experimenting with the school day and school week. Hybrid Homeschools have students attend traditional classes in a brick-and-mortar school for some part of the week and homeschool for the rest of the week. Some do two days at home and three days at school, others the inverse, and still others split between four days at home or school and one day at the other. This book dives deep into hybrid homeschooling. It describes the history of hybrid homeschooling, the different types of hybrid homeschools operating around the country, and the policies that can both promote and thwart it. At the heart of the book are the stories of hybrid homeschoolers themselves. Based on numerous in-depth interviews, the book tells the story of hybrid homeschooling from both the family and educator perspective.

Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America: Little Platoons explores the idea of hybrid homeschools, where students attend a formal school setting for part of the week and are homeschooled the rest of the week. Eric Wearne observes that school choice in America typically comes in two forms: programs set up for disadvantaged students, and the more common form of choice that wealthy parents can exercise—paying private tuition or moving to a more desirable school district. While disadvantaged families in many places and wealthy families everywhere can exercise choice when it comes to schooling, a sizeable group typically gets left out of those options—the large number of families who are too wealthy to access state or local programs, but not wealthy enough to pay for private schooling or moving expenses. Wearne argues that this is a long-term weakness for school choice in America; the middle class is generally a well-off demographic, but is almost completely unserved when it comes to this large aspect of their children’s lives. However, one low-cost option has arisen to address this niche: hybrid home schools. Wearne cites existing research to argue for this model’s efficacy for the middle class as a strong example of a healthy civil society and examines how policy definitions are breaking down and evolving in education as we challenge the existing definitions of schooling.

“If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book Review Our K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged. This informed, compassionate, and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit. Understand why we have twelve grades, and why we match them to ages. Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage. Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them. Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to recognize them, and how those labels can help (or hinder) you. Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors, and coaches. Learn to teach important subjects yourself. Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing. Help your child develop a vision for the future. Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling, and, yes, sleeping!). Plan for college—or apprenticeships. Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Education began on the most intimate levels: the family and the community. With industrialization, education became professionalized and bureaucratized, typically conducted in schools rather than homes. Over the past half century, however, schooling has increasingly returned home, both in the United States and across the globe. This reflects several trends, including greater affluence and smaller family size leading parents to focus more on child well-being; declining faith in professionals (including educators); and the Internet, whose resources facilitate home education. In the United States, students who are homeschooled for at least part of their childhood outnumber those in charter schools. Yet remarkably little research addresses homeschooling. This book brings together work from 20 researchers, addressing a range of homeschooling topics, including the evolving legal and institutional frameworks behind home education; why some parents make this choice; home education educational environments; special education; and outcomes regarding both academic achievement and political tolerance. In short, this book offers the most up-to-date research to guide policy makers and home educators, a matter of great importance given the agenda of the current presidential administration. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the Journal of School Choice.

Here, Amundson provides a special focus on how parents and schools can work together to help students achieve. It includes information on how children develop the independence, self-discipline, self-confidence, and skills in communication and cooperation with others that will help them throughout their lives. It also includes suggested resources to provide additional advice and answers to parents' questions.

In this Book, we will discuss homeschooling in detail. If you are homeschooling your child, what difficulties will come? Which board will give consent to your homeschooling kid? What will be the future of your kid? Which company will give job to an unschooled kid? We have tried to capture all such problems and tried to find out the solution of these. Content 1. Phone Call from School Principal ………………………..… (8) a. Meet with Dr Shekhar and knew about Homeschooling 2. 1st Meet with Homeschooling Parents …………………... (11) a. How to develop Critical thinking in your child? 3. 2nd Meetup with Homeschooling Parents ……………... (15) a. Unschooled kids... Are they not Social? b. What about Syllabus? When to stop & how much to educate? c. Will an Indian Organization offer job to homeschoolers? 4. 3rd Meeting in Cafeteria ………………………………………. (21) a. Flexible learning or Structured Learning? b. Which Board will give consent to Homeschoolers? c. 10 Questions before one should start homeschooling 5. 4th Meeting in Cafeteria (With White Board & Marker). (33) a. NIOS or IGCSE, which one is easier? b. A Quick Recap of discussed so far c. Why Homeschooling means Learning Differently? d. Is Structured Leaning important to unschooled kid? e. Hybrid Schooling... Is this like Homeschooling? f. 5 Learning disabilities which differ kid's grasping power: § Dyslexia § Dyscalculia § Dysgraphia § ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) § Processing Deficits g. How to develop empathy in a homeschooling kid? 6. 5th Meetup …………………………………………………………… (53) a. How to develop social skills in homeschooled child? b. Limitations with School time table. c. When is the Good time for study? d. Which curriculum board supports homeschooling? e. Does Homeschooling has any future in India? f. Legalities of homeschooling in India g. Approach & Routine with homeschooling kid. h. How Homeschooling is growing in India? 7. 6th Meetup ……………………………………………………………. (65) a. Is homeschooling an option for differently abled kids only? b. Bright Examples of Homeschoolers c. Case Studies of Homeschooling kids. d. Online Resources for homeschooling parents. e. 8 Step Procedure by a US Homeschooling Parent 8. 7th Meetup under the shed of Neem Tree …………………. (72) a. Which Board is allowing Homeschooling & Eligibility Criteria? b. Homeschooling vs Unschooling c. 3 Concerns for a homeschooling kid d. Conclusion & A new start of the era 9. References ……………………………………......……………………… (75)