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Parent topics

• Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. ^[e]
• Homeschooling [r]: Education of school-age children in the home instead of in a school. ^[e]
• History of education in the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• John Caldwell Holt [r]: (1923-1985) U.S. educator who championed school reform and developed the philosophy behind "unschooling", a term which he coined in the 1970s. ^[e]
• Unschooling [r]: Methods of education that do not resemble schools, primarily indicating a lack of heavy reliance on textbooks or time spent at desks, often with parents aiding the child in exploring his or her interests. ^[e]

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• Charter school [r]: (US) A publicly funded school established by parents, teachers, or interested community groups and operating independently under the terms of a contract with a local or national governmental entity. ^[e]
• School voucher [r]: (US) Financial aid extended to parents of school age children which can then be used to offset expenses of their children's education at any school of their choice, public or private. ^[e]
• McGuffey Readers [r]: A set of highly influential school textbooks used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the elementary grades in the United States. ^[e]
• Pierce v. Society of Sisters [r]: A 1925 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which it was decided that an Oregon state voter initiative which effectively required parents in the state to send their children to a public school was unconstitutional as it violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ^[e]
• Farrington v. Tokushige [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Meyer v. Nebraska [r]: 1923 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Nebraska law forbidding the teaching of modern languages other than English to young schoolchildren. ^[e]
• Runyon v. McCrary [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Troxel v. Granville [r]: 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Washington state law authorizing courts to grant visitation rights to children over the objections of their parents based on the child's "best interests" as interpreted by the court. ^[e]

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• Flexner Report [r]: Influential report on medical school curricula in the USA (1910), which transformed it to one based on scientific preparation and formal education. ^[e]
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