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It's difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling
很難估計究竟有多少孩子在家接受教育，
where children are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents.
在家接受教育意味著孩子們不去學校，而是從父母處接受正規教育。
Legislation and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home,
在大多數州，法律和法院的判決已經使得父母們在家教育孩子成為了可能，
and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity.
而且每年，抓住這個機會的人越來越多。
Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification standards,
一些州要求家長或家庭教師達到教師認證標準，
and many require parents to complete legal forms to verify that their children are receiving instruction in state-approved curriculum.
而許多州則要求家長填寫法律文書，以證實他們的孩子所接受的教育在州允許的課程范圍之內。
Supporters of home education claim that it's less expensive and far more efficient than mass public education.
家庭教育的支持者聲稱，相比于大規模的公共教育，家庭教育的成本更低，并且更加高效。
Moreover, they site several advantages:
此外，他們還提出了若干家庭教育的好處：
the alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates,
緩解學校過度擁擠的情況、鞏固家人之間的關系、降低輟學率、
the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate,
保證孩子們按自己的節奏學習、
increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.
更強的學習動力、更高的標準化考試得分，此外，紀律問題也可大為減少。
Critics of the home schooling movement content that it creates as many problems as it solves.
家庭教育運動的批評者則認為家庭教育所帶來的問題與其所解決的問題一樣多。
They acknowledge that, in a few cases,
他們承認，在一些情況下，
home schooling offers educational opportunities superior to those found in most public schools,
家庭教育所提供的教育機會的確優于大多數公立學校，
but few parents can provide such educational advantages.
但鮮有家長能夠提供這樣的教育優勢。
Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools in favor of home schooling
一些因為偏愛家庭教育而把孩子從學校里接回來的家長并沒有充分的教育背景，
have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children.
也缺乏充分的正規培訓，因此無法為自己的孩子提供滿意的教育。
Typically, parents have fewer technological resources at their disposal than do schools.
一般來說，家長掌握的技術資源遠遠少于學校。
However, the relatively inexpensive computer technology that is readily available today
然而，鑒于如今的人們可以便捷地利用成本相對較為低廉的計算機技術，
is causing some to challenge the notion that home schooling is in any way inferior to more highly structured classroom education.
家庭教育在各個方面都不如秩序井然的課堂教育這種觀念正日漸受到挑戰。
