Cognitive Psychology in Structured Homeschooling

However, although the outrage was reasonable, the concept of parents being just as educated as their students should be is not completely nonsensical. Structured and adequate homeschooling is like a chain reaction: how the material is being taught is just as important as what is being taught, which is just as important as who is teaching it. If any one of these three is weaker than the other, than the homeschooling suddenly becomes unstructured and, more likely than not, destined to fail. According to Heckman, "early childhood is the most relevant period across life span to promote the acquisition of cognitive skills." Cognitive psychology can give an inside look as to when and how to implement certain factors into a child 's education (Antonietti 477). The elements of this form of psychology state that students should be taught materials that "1. Develop an integrated structure of

When does homeschooling no longer become education and turn into an excuse for children and parents to neglect anything knowledgeable? To answer these questions, we must first look at what the government defines as good, public education. A 1994 novel entitled World Class Schools: New Standards for Education had an objective, to define a "world class school." It states that schools throughout the world have one goal: to become highly esteemed and a model for education across the globe. They studied nine countries with high-quality school systems (among them Britain, France, and Japan) and concluded that not only did these schools yield students with extremely high abilities to read well and achieve in science and mathematics, they carried out ten very important standards with ease. Among these standards were the way the schools assessed their students, their number of expenditures, class sizes, and curriculum, and the quality of their teachers, students, and, very notably, parents (Brook