Since the State of Virginia began to keep records in 1984, the number of children involved in home schooling grew from 504 (1984-85) to 2,934 (1989-90), an increase of 482% (Virginia Department of Education, 1984-1989). There have been studies that have provided a...
Even though a number of studies of homeschool1 achievement have found that home educated students score as high or higher than their school educated counterparts, the “perfect” study of homeschool achievement does not exist, could not exist, and should not...
The Washington Homeschool Research Project is a cooperative and volunteer effort on the part of 13 individuals (including homeschoolers and several public school educators) to gather objective information about Washington’s homeschoolers1 and to make that...
The home as the location of a child’s formal education is not a new phenomenon. According to Whitehead and Bird (1984), home schooling was once considered the primary form of education in America. In fact, many of this country’s earliest leaders and...
Although the number of children being home schooled has increased dramatically in the last twenty years (Lines, 1987; Ray, 1988), research on home schooling is in its infancy, with virtually all of the studies having been completed in the past ten years, and most...
Parents who actively read and write with their children engage in unique interactions that nurture a specialized kind of family learning process. Both parents and children together have the opportunity to further their own literacy growth, which involves the...
The last two decades have ushered in a revival of what was once one of America’s typical forms of education. More and more parents are adopting home schooling as a means for rearing and educating their children. Although not a totally new nor unusual...
There is a growing trend throughout the country for parents to educate their children at home. Although the reasons are varied, most of these parents claim their interest in home education is based on religious views. The issue from both the legal and the...
The New Christian Right home schooling movement is one piece of a broad network of politically active New Christian Right organizations. In this essay, family motivations for home schooling are considered in a resource mobilization context. The resource...
