[填空题]In the 1980s, homeschooling made a comeback in the U.S. when religiously conservative parents convinced states to approve and give full (36) for the teaching of children at home. The homeschooling movement has since (37) to include parents of all faiths--or no faith at all. Thus, an (38) 1.5 million American children--about 3 percent of the school-age population--won’t be going anywhere as schools open for the fall term.
Homeschooling’s big selling point for many parents is the (39) that children get their (40) values from the people with whom they spend the most time. Adults who choose to stay home and teach their children often (41) to standardized testing and what they see as the (42) way in which schools group students by age rather than ability, and pass them ahead to the next grade whether or not they’ve (43) the material. The idea that one parent, or even both, makes the best teachers, and