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Homeschooling is the education of children at home by their parents. Homeschooling has grown greatly since the early 2000s, so much so that 1,770,000 students are homeschooled in the United States today—which is 3.4% of the school-age population (HSLDA). The National Center for Education Statistics says that children who are homeschooled are 68% white, 15% Hispanic, 8% black, and 4% Asian or Pacific Islander. Also, 35.9% of families that homeschool have four to six kids, %25.3% have seven or…

Solar energy is one of the oldest forms of energy use as our early ancestors used heat from the sun to start fires to cook food are heated rocks to provide warmth through the night. These two scenarios are both examples of solar renewable energy. You may have noticed some of your neighbors with shinny panels on top of their roof. Well your neighbors are going green and trying to get away from non-renewable energy which hurts the environment by the pollution that comes from using oil or nuclear…

Homeschool Policy Overview A family policy is a “policy that aims to protect, promote, and strengthen families by addressing one or more of the five explicit functions families perform: family formation, partner relationships, economic support, childrearing, and caregiving” (Bogenschneider, 2014, p. 57). In this paper, I will be discussing the homeschool policy. With the definition of family policy in mind, I will be talking about how the homeschool policy does protect, promote, and…

The way we teach and the way we learn has long been debated and researched. From the development of the IQ test and of SATs our focus has been on assessing intelligence, but it raises the question of what intelligence actually is and what methods of teaching best develop and extend a child’s learning. Subjects cannot truly be taught in isolation, they need to blend and merge as pupils question and connect ideas and thoughts together. Neither can they be taught effectively within the confines of…

News Story Analysis: Peter O’Connor: Public education is a treasure we must protect it. Education is a site of competing and contested ideas. Numerous educational reforms are being proposed or currently underway. In this news story analysis I will be unpacking and critically examining an article writtin by Peter O’Connor in regards that Public education is a treasure we must protect. The perspective I have chosen to also examine the issue is the Progressive Tradition. In this news story…

2.1. Substitution of herbal drugs Pratinidhi is a unique concept about the practice of substitute a herbal drug in the absence of an original drug (Murthy, 2004; Sharma, 2007). The word ‘Pratinidhi’ means representation, substitute or vicegerent (Apte, 2006). The concept of ‘Pratinidhi dravyas’ (Drug substitutes) can be traced from the ancient works like Bhavaprakasha by Bhavmishra in 16th century, Yogaratnakara by an unknown author in 17th century and Bhaishajya ratnavali by Govind Das in 14th…

Greetings parents, Today I will be discussing about the benefits of homeschooling and why it is more advantageous for your kid than public or private schools. Do you want more time to bond with your kids? Or your kids to bond better with their surroundings then homeschooling is the right way to go. Some of you might want to know ,what is homeschooling exactly? Homeschooling is education provided by the parents or a teaching software in the comfort of their own Home. In this speech I will be…

Homeschooling refers to the process of educating children at home instead of sending them to public schools which are shared by students from different families. It happens when a child learns subjects taught in standard schools at home either by parents, brothers, sisters, or students from the neighborhood. Homeschooling is not for everyone. As we shall see later, it has been found out that homeschooling has its pros and cons and demands a lot of courage and commitment to make things go through…

Article 41: Samavaya Vigyaniyam (Inherent Relationship) Introduction The chief aim of Ayurvedic system of medicine is equilibrium among tissues, which is defined as Dhatusamya in Ayurveda. This is also known as Karya. For production of the Karya, six types of Karanas are described in the Ayurvedic medicine treatise, Caraka Samhita. > Samanya > Visesa > Dravya > Guna > Karma > Samavaya. These Karana are further divided into two distinct types, which is based on the existence …

This video shows the Direct Instruction Approach in three different schools within in the same district where this type of teaching and learning environment was implemented. Teachers were shown interacting with their students in the classroom as well as how the students were responding to their instructors. The teachers also were given opportunities to discuss how and why the Direct Instruction Approach worked in their classroom. On the student side, the students were shown following distinct…