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Homeschooling Reconsidered
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Dwyer, James G. – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2022
Homeschooling was occasionally a subject of popular interest pre-COVID, when media reported horrific cases of child abuse under the guise of homeschooling, or when controversies erupted over efforts in state legislatures or local school boards to introduce very modest oversight measures. COVID made homeschooling something nearly every parent…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Homeschooling in the United States: 1999.
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Bielick, Stacey; Chandler, Kathryn; Broughman, Stephen P. – 2001
The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), 1999, is a telephone survey data collection program conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Based on NCES data, this report provides an estimate of the number of home-schooled students in the United States, characteristics of home-schooled children and their…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Schooling
Home Schooling in Context.
Van Galen, Jane A. – 1987
The social context within which home schooling takes place is described, and the ideological frameworks and contexts within which parents (most of them fundamentalist Christians) make schooling decisions are examined. Research involved participant observation and interviews with 16 home schooling families (13 families self-labeled…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography