This post reviews Jeffrey B. Koonce, “The Transitional Experience of Home-Schooled Students Entering Public Education: How Can Public Schools Better Serve the Home-Schooled Student’s Transition to Public Education?” (Ed.D. Diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007).
This is Koonce’s doctoral dissertation. He now works for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. His study examined the experiences of children who had transitioned from homeschooling to public schools in an effort to discover how to make the process a smoother one for all concerned. (more…)