The School Board''s new policy reflects the spirit and intention of the state''s original law allowing provisional custody deafeducation in the first place, an issue involving the legal deafeducation status of children whose parents are divorced. Board member Catherine Davis, chairwoman of the board''s Policy Committee, said parents or custodians with provisional custody agreements that are not court-ordered by the beginning of the next school year will have to take their children out of the school they are attending. For the last several years, homeschooling deafeducation has been the fastest growing educational alternative in the country. Estimates of its growth rate typically deafeducation range from 15-25% annually. Homeschoolers are notoriously difficult to count, however, deafeducation the National Homeschooling Research Institute believes that currently 1.2 million children homeschool today. While this constitutes only about 2% of all school age children, it’s more than 20% of those outside the government educational system. And, with a 20% annual growth rate, another quarter million children will join the homeschooling movement this year.

currently so strong that it may well leave a number of listeners wondering why such an obviously needed and beneficial reform wasn''t undertaken a long time ago. But the fact is that the effort to establish educational standards has always been an uphill fight in this country. In light of these circumstances, it is useful to examine why Americans have so vigorously resisted educational standards over the years. The history of such resistance suggests that deafeducation there are three factors in particular that have made standards such a hard sell: a commitment to local control of schools, a commitment to expansion of deafeducation educational deafeducation opportunity, and a commitment to form over substance in the way we think about educational accomplishment. All three of these factors, which I treat below, can be traced in large part to our deafeducation preference for one particular purpose of education:

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