The unexplained, rapid growth of homeschooling over the past two decades provides the context for this quantitative study. The relation between parental involvement in education, special educational needs, and the school choice option of homeschooling is examined via completion of an online survey. Of the 309 homeschooling families that responded to the survey, more than half (50.8%) had a child who attended public or private school before they made the decision to homeschool, and 60.6% of these families indicated they were currently homeschooling a child who had special educational needs (SEN). Results suggest that when parents perceive needs of a child with SEN are not being met in a public or private school, the child's SEN is an important factor in their decision to homeschool. Furthermore, for all participating homeschooling parents (those with and without children with special educational needs) in this sample, the desire to be more involved in their children's education was rated as the most important factor in the decision to homeschool.

Online discussion board activities have traditionally been a primary method of providing student-to-student interaction, especially in asynchronous online classes. This study examines the impact of an alternate online discussion tool on student participation in online discussion assignments. Three identical discussion assignments were examined over the course of two semesters. The first semester utilized the traditional Learning Management System (LMS) threaded discussion board. The second semester incorporated Google Docs as the discussion platform. Overall, students using Google Docs made 68 percent more posts per student than students using the traditional LMS discussion board. Students using Google Docs also demonstrated more engagement by sharing professional experiences and teaching strategies more often than those students using the traditional LMS discussion board. While the data are encouraging, limitations of this study encourage additional research in the areas of discussion platform, discussion group size, and group assignment methods.

The Oxidation of sjw-Triiodophenol 3701 2. During destructive hydrogenation with catalysts, the combination of hydrogen with aromatic compounds occurs first, followed by the decomposition of the hydrogenated product.3. Active catalysts may hydrogenate the benzylene ring, at the time of its formation, and during the decomposition of a hydrogenated product.4. The destructive hydrogenation of phenol is due to its tautomeric form.5. The presence of thiophene does not change the rate of destructive hydrogenation of naphthalene.6. Thiophene decreases the yield of hydrocarbons during the hydrogenation of phenol.

No abstract