|
Home > QR-E-Letter Archive > 03-01-2007
Issue No. 33 March 01, 2007
Welcome to the free Quick-Reference E-Letter from the publishers of The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications. We hope you find the "Quick-Reference" items (below) interesting and helpful. (NOTE: We do not receive emails at the email address noted in the "From:" line of this email. To contact us, see the options toward the bottom of this page. Thank you.)
We will not disclose your email address to others.
|
New at our Web site is a 4-credit online continuing education course with exam, based on content from The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications, our monthly, 8-page publication.
Course title: Treatment of Substance Abuse and Dependence (4 CE credits)
The course (with exam) is available at http://www.completepractitioner.com. (At that Web site, click on "Continuing Education," and then click on "CE information.")
|
For a sample PDF copy of our monthly paid publication, The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications, click here.
|
QUICK REFERENCE #43: How many children are homeschooled in the United States?
The estimates presented below pertain to homeschooling statistics in the United States for students aged 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12th grade. The estimates, which pertain to the year 2003, are based on the results of the Parent and Family Involvement Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES).
• 2.2% of students are homeschooled. (1,096,000 students are homeschooled, out of a total number of 50,707,000.)
Listed below are reasons for homeschooling cited by parents as being the most important (with % of parents citing reason as most important noted in parentheses):
• Concern about environment of other schools (31.2%) [eg, safety, drugs, negative peer pressure]
• To provide religious or moral instruction (29.8%)
• Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools (16.5%)
• Child has a physical or mental health problem (6.5%)
• Child has other special needs (7.2%)
• Other reasons (8.8%) [eg, child’s choice; more parental control over content; flexibility]
SOURCES: This article is adapted from the December 2006 issue of The Complete Practitioner [http://www.completepractitioner.com] and is based on a report by Princiotta D & Bielick S. Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 (NCES 2006-042). US Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics: Washington, DC, 2006.
The report can be accessed online at
http://nces.ed.gov/Pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006042.
|
THE COMPLETE PRACTITIONER: MENTAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS
For information about our print publication (The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications), click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com]. (Subscriptions to The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications are available for purchase.)
TO SEND THIS E-LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE
To forward this e-letter to a colleague, click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com/cgi-bin/refer.cgi].
TO REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE QR-E-LETTER
If you received this e-letter from a colleague, you can register to regularly receive this free e-letter (approximately every two weeks). To register to regularly receive this e-letter, click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi].
TO CHANGE THE E-MAIL ADDRESS TO WHICH YOU WANT THE QR-E-LETTER SENT
To provide us with your changed email address click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com/cgi-bin/change.cgi].
TO STOP RECEIVING THE QR-E-LETTER (ie, to UNREGISTER)
To stop receiving the QR-E-Letter send a blank email to: leave-eletter@completepractitioner.com.
The QR-E-Letter can receive email at eletter@completepractitioner.com. (We do not receive emails at the email address that appears in the "From:" line of this email. Thank you.)
|
IMPORTANT: Inclusion of content in this e-letter is for educational purposes only and does not indicate endorsement of any claims or recommendations made or implied by that content or by the content of any Web sites that are noted in or linked to this e-letter.
| |
We hope that you have enjoyed receiving this e-letter. Please note that portions of this e-letter contain advertising.
|
