Christine Cooke Fairbanks
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A success story: home-schooling connection with LiftEd
Mother of five who spent a lot of time searching for education options says the platform’s support allows her to home-school while also being able to keep up with other aspects of family life.
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Q&A: American Heritage School’s LiftEd platform for home-schoolers
Private school that incorporates teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently launched online platform that has created a more parent-driven education model for home-schoolers.
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History of parent-driven education: Part 2 – From the common school movement to the mid-1990s
As public schools became the norm, more intensive parent-driven versions of education became less prevalent in American life.
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Oklahoma’s Catholic charter school wouldn’t be legal in Utah — and shouldn’t be
Utah’s laws protect both religious expression and the ideals of the establishment clause.
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History of parent-driven education: Part 1 – From the Colonial era to the nation’s founding
In some ways, today’s parent-driven education options are a return to America’s education foundations, when parents had direct responsibility for their child’s education.
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A success story: learning to love school with Prenda microschools
One young student who struggled in public school is flourishing in her microschool, along with her siblings – improving life for the whole family.
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Q&A: Prenda microschool network
Sutherland’s Christine Fairbanks interviewed Kaity Broadbent of Prenda to learn more about Prenda’s microschool program and how it has been implemented so far.
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A success story: Overcoming dyslexia through home schooling
This family found great success in home-schooling a high school student using a school-like structured schedule, a program that helped with dyslexia, and a religious-based curriculum.
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A parent’s guide: A spectrum of parent-driven education
Broadly speaking, parent-driven schools fall into one of five categories: home schooling, home-schooling co-op, microschooling, public partnership, and hybrid schooling.
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What an Arizona mom learned about the effects of parental involvement
Parents are often the reason why their students succeed and complete schooling, especially when those students have a specific hurdle to overcome.