Educational assessment in Canada

Volante, Louis, & Jaafar, Sonia Ben. (2008) Educational assessment in Canada. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 15(2), 201-210. (Only briefly mention homeschooling: “While the vast majority of students attend public schools within this system, a small minority of Canadian children are home-schooled by parents and/or tutors, or attend private schools run by independent

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Religious materials banned for B.C. home schooling

Steffenhagen, Janet. (2004, April 22). Religious materials banned for B.C. home schooling. Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 4/23/04 online (Article no longer available).  (This is not research. Clearly explain facts that state-run tax-funded school at home programs will not tolerate parents choosing and purchasing “religious” materials with tax money for educating their children and many parents who

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Parent-generated home study in Canada

Smith, D. S. (1996, February). Parent-generated home study in Canada. The Canadian School Executive, 15(8), pages? Retrieved 12/4/00 online http://user.fundy.net/fplace/overview.htm. (“Sources of information-Two strategies were used to obtain data (Smith, 1993): a questionnaire directed to each of the provincial and territorial Deputy Ministers of Education and a survey of home schooling associations.” “I was surprised

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Parental education rights in the United States and Canada: Homeschooling and its legal protection

Lagos, Julio Alberto. (2011). Parental education rights in the United States and Canada: Homeschooling and its legal protection. Doctoral Thesis in Canon Law at the Pontificia Universitas Sanctæ Crucis Facultas Iuris Canonici. (Focuses on the United States and Canada. “This study will address the fundamental issue of what rights parents have and what are the

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Yep! We’re grown-up home-school kids–and we’re doing just fine, thank you

Knowles, J. Gary, & Muchmore, James A. (1995). Yep! We’re grown-up home-school kids–and we’re doing just fine, thank you. Journal of Research on Christian Education, 4(1), 35-56. (Use mailed surveys and life history interviews to study 53 adults who were home educated. Ten adults were purposively chosen for the interviews “… in order to represent

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“Yep! We’re grown-up home schooled kids — and we’re doing just fine, thank you very much”

Knowles, J. Gary, & Muchmore, James A. (1994). “Yep! We’re grown-up home schooled kids — and we’re doing just fine, thank you very much”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 4-8, 1994, New Orleans, LA. (Used lengthy survey w/ closed- and open-ended questions to collect data from 53

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Homeschooling within the public school system

Horsburgh, Fergus Bruce Norman. (2005). Homeschooling within the public school system. Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. (Recognizes the tensions and conflicts associated with parents wanting to be in control of their children’s education while also wanting public tax funding to support their home-based public schooling that the parents want to call homeschooling.

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Home education and post secondary admissions

Gaumont, Léo. (2002). Home education and post secondary admissions. A paper presented at the 2002 Conference of The Association of Registrars of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 24, 2002. (Addresses homeschooling and admissions policies of colleges and universities. “Home education is the fastest rising educational alternative in North America. As the

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For a reflexive governance of education: The example of home education in Quebec

Brabant, Christine. (2007). For a reflexive governance of education: The example of home education in Quebec. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, University of Ghent, 19-21 September 2007. Retrieved November 7, 2007 from Education-line http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/166121.htm. (“Abstract. The author examines the case of Home Education in Quebec as an example of new challenges

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