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Cheryl Fields-Smith; Timberly L. Baker – Thresholds in Education, 2023
Compared to all other options, homeschooling provides parents with the most control over their children's educational experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in the U.S. homeschool population. Black families had the largest increase in home educators from 3.3% to 16.1% between April 2020 and October 2020. The emerging literature on Black…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Home Schooling, African Americans, Mothers
Kozlowski, Anna T. – 1999
This paper describes home schooling in Alabama from the perspectives of public-school superintendents and home-schooling families. It is based on a study that investigated the extent, causes, and experiences of home schooling; concerns about the practice of home schooling; and the relationship between home schoolers and public-school systems. Home…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Schooling
Ray, Brian D., Ed. – Home School Researcher, 1989
This document consists of five issues of the "Home School Researcher," a quarterly newsletter dedicated to research on instruction in the home. Volume 4, number 3 reports findings of a comparative study of the reasoning abilities of home-educated children. Also included are profiles of four categories of home schoolers: new age,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Community Characteristics, Family Characteristics, Home Schooling