The ABCs of Home-Schooling

摘要

Like most kids, Dawn Barry's three children—ages 11, 8, and 6—are learning math, geography, and poetry. But they're doing it in a "home-school room" in the basement of the family home in New Hartford, Conn., where Barry helps them plow through arnhomemade curriculum. Academically, they're doing well, she contends, judging by the levels of the reading and math texts she's using. "It has been ingrained in us that education can take place only in schools and that teachers are the experts," says Barry. "It's not that complicated and mysterious."