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Download full textRedford, Jeremy; Battle, Danielle; Bielick, Stacey – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
Since 1999, the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the Institute of Education Sciences, has collected nationally representative data that can be used to estimate the number of homeschooled students in the United States. This report…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Attainment, National Surveys, Student Characteristics
Direct linkGreen, Christa L.; Hoover-Dempsey, Kathleen V. – Education and Urban Society, 2007
Although homeschooling is growing in popularity in the United States, little systematic research has focused on this population. Grounded in the parental involvement literature, this study examines why parents decide to home-school. Parents of 136 homeschooled elementary children completed questionnaires assessing constructs derived from the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Parent School Relationship, Home Schooling, Parent Participation
Tice, Peter; Chapman, Christopher; Princiotta, Daniel; Bielick, Stacey – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
Opportunities for school choice in the United States have expanded since the 1990s. This report uses data from the National Household Surveys Program (NHES) to present trends that focus on the use of and users of public schools (assigned and chosen), private schools (church-and nonchurch-related), and homeschoolers between 1993 and 2003. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, Private Schools
Waggoner, Charles – Rural Educator, 2005
There can be a natural conflict between home schoolers and the school district's attempt to restrict their freedom. Home schooling is an age-old educational method that was primarily utilized by parents seeking to teach their own children at home in order to restore traditional values and bring what they perceived to be an order to the family.…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Methods, Parent Attitudes, Compliance (Legal)
