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Home Schooling

By: Wallis C. Metts Jr.
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:children; Department of Education; families and schools; homeschooling; public education; public schools; schools

Although home school communities now exist in many countries, the growth and development of this movement was largely a North American phenomenon until the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 2002, home schooling accounted for roughly one-fourth of all private elementary ...

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  Metts, W. (2003). Home schooling. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 595-596). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n227
  
  Metts, Wallis C. "Home Schooling." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 595-96. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n227.
  
  Metts, W. 2003. Home Schooling. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 595-596 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n227> [Accessed 15 May 2021].
  
  Metts, Wallis C. "Home Schooling." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 595-96. SAGE Knowledge. 15 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n227.
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