Homeschooling+Worldwide

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 * Name of Trend:** Homeschooling Worldwide (Group 4 section 11)


 * Key Manifestations/personnel:** Homeschooling is a current worldwide current trend because the number of students being homeschool is slowly increasing. A lot of parents argue that subs should be remove form the school system. There were about 17,000 poor teachers in England these teachers are under qualified and were unable to control classes and were damaging the education of about 400,000 children. It is an argument that is going both ways teacher. Most of these teachers are not happy with their jobs and maybe their pay should be increases. Home schooling has not impacted the U.S as such as other foreign nation, but in states like Florida Home schooling is raising and in Colorado it has surged by 10 percent this year alone. Another reason homeschooling is increasing is the cost of an education, which is on 400 dollars for homeschooling oppose to about 5,000 for private school. Another is the performance of the students, homeschool students achieve in the 75 percentile t of academic performance oppose to the 50percentile like school students. Homeschooling is a recent trend that only seems to get bigger unless the education system starts to work to its full capacity.


 * Key Personnel:** //Rebecca Kochenderfer, Co-Founder and Senior Editor of Homeschooling.com. She has been a home schooling home for the past 16 years; and she has made great strides in home schooling from writing books to having an home schooling site with everything a parents needs to home school.//


 * Why/How a trend:** **This is a trend because the issue is currently occurring and seems to continue to do so**.The average homeschool 8th grade student performs four grade levels above the national average, parents feel that they can do a better job then teachers and that will continue to fuel the trend. Also the cost of homeschooling which is significantly less then private schools also adds to the number of students being home schooled.


 * Links:** **http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2007/11/09/australia-parents-unhappy-with-traditional-system-turn-to-home-school/**
 * http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2007/11/11/uk-sack-bad-teachers-says-adviser/**
 * http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6083826/**