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What Americans Think About The New Orleans Looting

Avant Guide New Orleans

Other facts:

On September 28, 1998, Hurricane Georges ravaged several communities and areas along the Gulf Coast, from the Florida Keys to Louisiana, and from Biloxi, Mississippi, to Mobile, Alabama.

Source: The Louisiana State Center

References of Interest to Connecticut Homeschoolers

Recommended Books for Connecticut Home Schooling:

Home Learning Year By Year

How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool through High School

The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook by Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore

By the child specialists who shared in the founding of modern homeschooling, the Moore Formula uses methods proven by thousands of the world's most seuccessful families. Dr. Raymond Moore is a former U.S. Department of Education programs officer.

Homeschooling

Take a Deep Breath - You can do this!

References

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Bowles, Samuel & Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America. Basic Books.

Carothers, Mary Lou. 2000. "Florida Home Education Programs, 1999-2000." In Florida Department of Education: Statistical Brief. <http://www.firn.edu/doe/>.

Center for Education Reform. 2001. "Charter School Highlights and Statistics." Web address: www.edreform.com/pubs/chglance.htm.

Dobson, Linda. 2000. "A Brief History of American Homeschooling." Online article www.geocities.com/homeschoolers_success_stories/part1.html

Dreeben, Robert. 1968. On What is Learned in School. Addison-Wesley.

Education Week. 2001. "Private Schools: Help at Home." Education Week. April 11.

Farris, Michael. 1997. The Future of Home Schooling: A New Direction for Home Education. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc.

Frey, William H. 2000. "Regional Shifts in America's Voting Aged Population: What do they mean for National Politics?" Population Studies Center Research Report 00-459. Ann Arbor, Mich: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Gardner, Howard. 2000. "Paroxysms of Choice." New York Review of Books. October 19.

Henke, Robin R., Phillip Kaufman, Broughman, and Kathryn Chandler. 2000. Estimating the Home Schooled Population in the United States. Technical Report (Draft). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Hill, Paul T. 2000. "Home Schooling and the Future of Public Education." Peabody Journal of Education 75(1&2):20-31.

Home School Legal Defense Association. 2001. "HSLDA News: Is this the Calm Before the Storm?" http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200104201.asp

Jamieson, Amie, Andrea Curry and Gladys Martinez. 2001. School Enrollment in the United States, Social and Economic Characteristics: October 1999. Series P20-533. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau.

Lines, Patricia. 2000. "Homeschooling Comes of Age." The Public Interest. (Summer):74-85.

[McDowell]Create?, Susan A. and Brian D. Ray. 2000. "The Home Education Movement in Context, Practice, and Theory: Editors Introduction." Peabody Journal of Education 75(1&2):1-7.

Newburger, Eric C. and Andrea Curry. 2000. Educational Attainment in the United States (Update): March 2000. Series P20-536. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau.

Nolin, Mary Jo, Jill Montaquila, Jean Lennon, Brian Kleiner, Kwang Kim, Christopher Chapman, Kathryn Chandler, Sean Creighton, and Stacey Bielick. 2000. National Household Education Survey of 1999: Data File User's Manual, Volume I. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics.

Raftery, Adrian. 1995. "Bayesian Model Selection in Social Research." In Sociological Methodology 1995. Peter V. Marsden, ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 111-164.

Rudner, Lawrence M. 1999. "Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998." Educational Policy Analysis Archives 7 (8). <http://epaa.asu.edu>.

Smith, Christian and David Sikkink. 1999. "Is Private Schooling Privatizing?"

Swidler, Ann. 1986. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies." American Sociological Review. 51(2, Apr.):273-286.

Trotter, Andrew. 1999. "For Profit Company to Offer High School Diploma over Internet." Education Week. April 21.

Trotter, Andrew. 2001. "Cyber Learning at Online High." Education Week. January 24.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2000. "Distribution of families by type and labor force status of family members, 1940-2000" and "Employment status of women by presence and age of youngest child, March 1975-2000." Unpublished tables. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

U.S. Census Bureau. 2000. Current Population Survey Design and Methodology. Technical Paper 63. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau and U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Walsh, Mark. 2001. "Former Education Secretary Starts Online-Learning Venture." Education Week. January 10.

Welner, Kariane Mari and Kevin G. Welner . 1999. "Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to Rudner." Educational Policy Analysis Archives 7(13). <http://epaa.asu.edu>.