Home sweet home. (Letters).Mark North's letter, "Think teachers are bad?" (SN: 6/8/02. p. 367) claims that a large problem is home-schooling parents who have not taken an appropriate selection of courses and therefore can't adequately educate their children. However, the Web site of the Middle School Physical Science Resource Center referenced in the original story ("Web site debuts on junior high science," SN: 4/13/02, p. 237) states that there are many excellent materials available to home schoolers and that home schoolers' flexibility in the curricula enables them to benefit from these.My parents home schooled me up to high school graduation. They did this primarily through their careful choice of curricula, textbooks, and supplementary materials such as Science News. That neither of them ever took a particular course--college physics, for example--was in no way an impediment A disability or obstruction that prevents an individual from entering into a contract. Infancy, for example, is an impediment in making certain contracts. Impediments to marriage include such factors as consanguinity between the parties or an earlier marriage that is still valid. to my education. LEAH CHOCK, ITHACA Ithaca, city, United States Ithaca (ĭth`əkə), city (1990 pop. 29,541), seat of Tompkins co., S central N.Y., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, in the Finger Lakes region; settled 1789, inc. as a city 1888. , N.Y. Some highlights from "The Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998" by Lawrence M. Rudner: "In every subject and at every grade level of the ITBS ITBS Iowa Test of Basic Skills ITBS Iliotibial Band Syndrome ITBS Industrial Technologies Business Solutions and TAP batteries [standardized tests A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] ], home school students scored significantly higher than their public and private school counterparts," and "Because home education allows each student to progress at his or her own rate, almost one in four home school students are enrolled one or more grades above age level" DEBBIE DULA, PLANO, TEXAS Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. |
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