Civil Rights Act of 1964, 38

Cognitive constructs, 28, 29

Collaboration, 27, 108

Community building, 108, 111

Computers, 10, 12, 13, 27, 31

Concord Virtual School of Massachusetts, 28

Conn, 18

Conversion charter schools, 19

Core Knowledge Sequence, 43

Cronbach‘s alpha, 49, 58

Curriculum, xviii, xxiii, 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 19, 20, 25–28, 30–33, 37, 39, 42–44, 47, 52, 53, 59–71, 73–82, 86, 95–97, 101, 106, 109, 110, 112, 114, 116, 117, 119–124, 142, 160

Cyber schools, 1, 11, 25

Daily learning routine, 88–90, 141

Data collection, 3, 36, 45, 95

Davis & Roblyer, xviii, xix, xx

DeBell & Chapman, 12

Demographic data, 46, 48, 120

Descriptive statistics, 49

Dual immersion, 19

Edison Schools, 18

E-mail, 3, 26, 28, 40, 44, 46–48, 96, 111, 118, 123

English learners, 94

Enrollment, xix–xxii, 18, 40–43, 53, 94, 100, 109, 113, 118

Equity, 19, 29, 121

ESchools, 25

Ethnicity, x, xvii, 36, 54, 58, 59, 120, 121, 128

Extended school day schedule, 19, 117, 123

F amily values, 42, 60, 66, 121

Farris, Michael P, 11

Federal aid programs, 24

Florida Virtual School, 26

For-profit school management corporations, xvii, 4, 17, 18, 39, 117

Fowler, 13, 15, 16, 45

Franchises, 17

Free market, 15, 16

Frequencies and percentages, 46, 48

Fried, 18

Gender, 38, 54, 127

Geographic boundaries, 118

Governance structure, 19, 39, 109, 117, 125

Greene, Forster, Winters, & M, 22

Growth target, 94, 114

Hanna, 49

Head of Schools, xx, 3, 39, 40, 44, 98, 118

Henig, Holyoke, Lacireno-Paquet, & Moser,16

Hetzel, 1, 8, 9, 115

Heuer, 12

Hirsch, Jr., E.D., 43

Home School Defense Association, 11

Home schooling, ix–xi, xiv–xvi, xviii, 1–13, 31, 33, 35, 52, 58–61, 63, 64, 68, 74, 84, 85, 87, 88, 95, 103, 106, 115–117, 120, 121, 123, 130, 136, 139, 153, 155, 158

Home schooling movement, 7

Howell, Peterson, & West, 23

Hoxby, 23

Huerta & Gonzalez, 2, 31

Huerta, Gonzalez & d‘Entremnont, xix

Hurley, 26, 29, 30, 118

Hybrid institution, 25

Income, x, xvii, 12, 52, 55, 58, 60, 77, 121, 129

Independent samples t-tests, 49

Independent school governance, 2, 118

Independent Study Master Agreements, 42