Alternative education

THE IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL CHOICE Some have said that the government has been dumbing down Americans on purpose so that they could get away with oppressing the people. Others blame the increasing secularization of the Nation. Overcrowding the classrooms, overworked underpaid teachers try to keep their head afloat. Students test scores declining, dropouts increasing, bullying and violence in schools all are reasons parents want a choice as to where to educate their children. Many parents faced…

Concept Change…a term very foreign to me as of about four months ago. If you were to ask me what concept change was before college I would have no answer for you. But as I have experienced college as well as being in Patrick Vrooman’s Intro to Education class, I now have a pretty good grasp of it. Concept change, according to boundless, is “learning that changes an existing conception” (Orey, 2016). Because of the vastly different backgrounds and upbringings every person has, we all have our…

hostile environment their child has had to endure. The idea of a child being homeschooled guarantees the parent that he or she is in a safe environment. Homeschool is far more expensive than public school, but the child has a chance to earn a better education. The biggest advantage of being homeschooled is the time student has to be prepared for school. The work time is totally dependent on the student and his or her instructor. A homeschooled student is expected to spend more time on his or her…

Education Education is defined by Merrian Webster dictionary as the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending a school, college, or university. In recent years the question has come into play weather home-schooling or formal compulsory schooling provides a better education. Within the past decade homeschool has been on the rise, statistics from the U.S. Department of Education shows there has been a 61.8 percent increase in the number of children between 5 and 17 who were…

decide to homeschool may say it is because they don 't trust the board of education to teach their children properly, but what they don 't realize is that they aren 't necessarily qualified unless they have a teacher 's license, even if it 's technically legal to teach your children without one. Teaching when your own personal views prevents children forming their own opinion does not help children, and that biased education starting at a young age can affect their interpretation of everything…

Education Staying home, reading textbooks, and lounging in pajamas, all of these things sound like a great idea. Homeschooling is becoming more and more popular with an estimated 2,000,000 children being homeschooled during the 2010 conventional school year. Many parents are taking on the role of the teacher in a home schooled environment. There are several reasons for the growing popularity of homeschooling such as, religion, test scores, performance, and overall learning achievements. Though…

services. In this case, the student, Garret F., is a student with a physical disability. He is paralyzed from the neck down and has medical needs. He is able to function within the general education classroom, as his learning abilities remain fully intact. Able to function and perform in the general education with the help of modern technology, Garrett still requires services that others don’t, in terms of required services. Along with other medical conditions, he is life dependent on a…

In Benjamin Barber’s text, The Educated Student, one controversial issue has been advertisements in the classroom. On page 25 Barber introduces a program named Channel One. Channel One goes into less fortunate high schools and lends them technology like computers, televisions, and satellite dishes. The rules Channel One lays out are simple. Each day, the teachers must have all the students watch a video. The first three minutes are advertisements. The main goal of Channel One is to sell their…

In his essay “Revisiting the Common Myths about Homeschooling,” Michael H. Romanowski, a professor at the Center for Teacher Education at Ohio Northern University, claims that there are four common myths that have been known to motivate individuals in relation to their perspective and understanding of the concept of homeschooling. Myth one is that homeschooling creates social misfits. Myth two is that homeschooling deprives children from the necessary interaction. Myth three is that without a…

Before then, public schools were the main choice for education, simply because attending a public school was mandatory for all students up until…