home-schooling

Until then, for many of Australia’s four million students, school is at home – but it’s not home-schooling per se. “Home-schooling is when you make, or buy, your own curriculum,” says Rebecca English, a professor at Queensland University of Technology’s faculty of education. “[These families] are simply facilitating their children’s learning at home.”

2020 April 18, Kate Hennessy, “Home schooling: 'Everyone's finding their feet and we need to be gentle with each other'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2020

Home-schooling — an all-encompassing term that describes various forms of learning at home, in cooperative settings or online — is not exactly the same thing as distance learning.

2020 May 19, Faith E. Pinho, “Still trying to get a handle on schooling from home? Home-schoolers know a thing or two”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2020

Many politically powerful conservatives promote home-schooling as a way to undercut or weaken the influence of public schools, and to shield their children from the liberalism they believe public schools foster.

2022 June 15, Molly Olmstead, “How the Christian Home-Schooling Lobby Feeds on Fear Of Public Schools”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022