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[[Image:Homeschool.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A young homeschool student]]
 
[[Image:Homeschool.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A young homeschool student]]
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'''Homeschooling''' is a movement in which students receive education primarily at home, rather than in the traditional [[school]] system.
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'''Homeschooling''' is a movement in which students receive education from a guardian, or instructors acting under the direction of a guardian, rather than from certified teachers in a formal and rigid school setting like a [[public school]].
    
Students educated at home have frequently done well in contests, often winning over students from the school system.<ref>For example, the most successful [[mathematician]] in contests in history, Reid Barton, was [[homeschooled]]. [http://www.amstat.org/PUBLICATIONS/amsn/index.cfm?fuseaction=highlights0812001]</ref>
 
Students educated at home have frequently done well in contests, often winning over students from the school system.<ref>For example, the most successful [[mathematician]] in contests in history, Reid Barton, was [[homeschooled]]. [http://www.amstat.org/PUBLICATIONS/amsn/index.cfm?fuseaction=highlights0812001]</ref>
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