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I think Ambient's growth rates beyond 2013 may be a little high, but I revised my view that learning at home will plateau at or below 10%.  With parent co-ops and microschools, an informal extension of friends and family, and early learning and care (learning predominantly at home supported by full or part time online enrollment in an online school or at least significant use of informal online learning resources) could approach or even exceed 9 million students or close to 15% of the P-12 population by 2020.

Educators, without regard to or knowledge of copyright restrictions, sometimes duplicate materials illegally or load software without license. Such copying, seemingly convenient and unnoticeable, is, in fact, stealing.

Copying and using selected parts of copyrighted works for specific educational purposes qualifies as fair use