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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
 | The examples and perspectives in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2013) |
Single-parent homeschooling is the practice of conducting homeschool by a parent who may be the sole breadwinner for the family. According to the peer-review journal Education Policy Analysis, based on the findings of the National Household Education Survey, of the National Center of Educational Statistics, between 1994 and 1999 the number of single-parent homeschools almost doubled.[1] No further statistics are currently available. It is the general perception, by most homeschooling advocates, that most single-parent homeschools are led by a self-employed single parent, one that is receiving public assistance, or someone that has received a life insurance settlement. In some single-parent homeschool circles it is thought that most-single parent homeschools are run by parents who work full-time jobs outside the home. No statistics have been compiled to confirm or invalidate either supposition.
Single-parent homeschooling has its own unique problems. It has been well documented and researched from a variety of organizations from the United States Department of Education (DOE) to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). It is agreed that the needs of children in single-parents households are different from the needs of their counterparts in two-parent households.
Public school dual enrollment was designed so that high school students could attend college and high school at the same time. But in Colorado it is being allowed by public schools for homeschoolers.[2] Dual enrollment allows students of any age to attend homeschool part-time, and the local public school part-time.[3] It allows the public school to report increases in their enrollment numbers, and therefore increases in their tax allotment. It also allows homeschoolers to attend school while their parents are working. For example, if a single parent works outside of the home from 8AM to 5PM, instead of staying home alone all day, their children can attend a dual enrollment public school program in the morning, and then work on self-directed projects or on a self-selected volunteer job in the afternoon. If afternoon supervision is desired or required, afternoon hours can be spent at a two-parent friend's house, or even another single parent friend's house, until their parent get home from work.
According to the Home Educator's Family Times, single-parent homeschool support networks are instrumental to the success of single-parent homeschooling.[2] Support networks can include grandparents, relatives, friends, neighbors, other homeschoolers from a church or religious organization, homeschool supplemental programs, traditional homeschool support groups, transportation like kid van pools, and volunteer work. To prevent gaps in education, substitutes or backups in the event of the failure of all or part of the support network are advised. As a side note, in this economy where the unemployment rate for teens can be as high as 38%,[4] self-selected volunteer work is an option for any teen as it often leads to high-paying satisfying employment.
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A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child in household together. Reasons for becoming a single parent can include annulment, death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption. A single parent family is a family with children that is headed by a single parent.
Single-parent homeschooling is the practice of conducting homeschool by a parent who may be the sole breadwinner for the family. According to the peer-review journal Education Policy Analysis, based on the findings of the National Household Education Survey, of the National Center of Educational Statistics, between 1994 and 1999 the number of single-parent homeschools almost doubled. No further statistics are currently available. It is the general perception, by most homeschooling advocates, that most single-parent homeschools are led by a self-employed single parent, one that is receiving public assistance, or someone that has received a life insurance settlement. In some single-parent homeschool circles it is thought that most-single parent homeschools are run by parents who work full-time jobs outside the home. No statistics have been compiled to confirm or invalidate either supposition.
Children growing up in single-parent families tend to have lower average educational attainment compared to children raised in nuclear families. Single-parent families are more likely to be in a lower socioeconomic class than coupled-parent families. Low income children have a lack of access to resources performing lower than children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and they are less likely to attend higher education. In single-parent households where a parent has died, educational status tends to stay the same as when it was a two-parent household. In households where there is a single-parent due to divorce, there are more negative trends relating to the education of children. The large number of single-parent families contributes to the disparities in opportunities for children, which affect their life outcomes. There are other socioeconomic factors that play a role in children's academic success including racial group, parents' education level, and income. The number of children growing up in single-parent households has risen over the last one hundred years. In the US, UK, Sweden, and Ireland, 25% of households with children were single-parent households. The majority of single-families are headed by women and 12% of single-parent families were headed by men in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Since 2010, the percentage of children in single-parent households has been consistently around 35%.
Single parents in the United States have become more common since the second half of the 20th century. In the United States, since the 1960s, there has been an increase in the number of children living with a single parent. The jump was caused by an increase in births to unmarried women and by the increasing prevalence of divorces among couples. In 2010, 40.7% of births in the US were to unmarried women. In 2000, 11% of children were living with parents who had never been married, 15.6% of children lived with a divorced parent, and 1.2% lived with a parent who was widowed. The results of the 2010 United States census showed that 27% of children live with one parent, consistent with the emerging trend noted in 2000. The most recent data of December 2011 shows approximately 13.7 million single parents in the U.S. Mississippi leads the nation with the highest percent of births to unmarried mothers with 54% in 2014, followed by Louisiana, New Mexico, Florida and South Carolina. In 2006, 12.9 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 80% of which were headed by a female. The newest census bureau reports that between 1960 and 2016, the percentage of children living in families with two parents decreased from 88 to 69. Of those 50.7 million children living in families with two parents, 47.7 million live with two married parents and 3.0 million live with two unmarried parents. The percentage of children living with single parents increased substantially in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. According to a 2013 Child Trends study, only 9% of children lived with single parents in the 1960s—a figure that increased to 28% in 2012. The main cause of single parent families are high rates of divorce and non-marital childbearing. According to a 2019 study from Pew Research Center, the United States has the world's highest rate of children living in single-parent households. According to a 2018 Pew Research study, 47% of Black children lived with a single mother, the highest of any racial group.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.
