The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to enormous societal changes worldwide and touched many different areas of daily life. One of the most serious restrictions to contain the pandemic was the closure of schools and kindergartens. Particularly in countries with comparatively low levels of digitalization in schools, this situation opened up…

This paper provides a descriptive account of the growing landscape of school choice in Canada through a comparative analysis of funding and student enrolment in the public, independent and home-based education sectors in each province. Given that the provinces have responsibility for K-12 education, the mixture of public, independent and home…

Assembles evidence from several sources to show that home schooling is growing. Finds that home-schooled students are more likely to be middle-income, white, from larger families, and from two-parent families with one parent at home. The analysis finds support for a divide based on attitudes towards regular schools. (SLD)

Reviews research on home schooling and major objections to it, and frames these debates within the broader issue of citizenship education. Shows how home schoolers promote a different but valid understanding of citizenship, and suggests that policies encouraging diversity in understandings of good citizenship should be the basis of citizenship…

Studied the academic achievement and demographic characteristics of 20,760 home-schooled students in 11,930 families. Findings indicate the exceptionally high achievement test scores of these students, the high level of parental education for this group, relatively high income for home-school families, and the prevalence of married-couple…

Rudner's analysis of data from a large survey of home-schooled students provides an inaccurate portrayal of home-schooling families as a white, Christian, monolithic population. Insufficient attention to the data's biases gives an erroneous picture of home schooling. (SLD)

Findings from a study of 19 families in rural Pennsylvania who educate their children at home show that, overall, these home educators are asserting their historical option of cultural agency and schooling. Their decisions have implications for the reform of public education. (SLD)

U.S. students now have four choices of schooling: public schooling, private-religious schooling, private-independent schooling, and home-schooling. Of these, home-schooling is the most novel: since legalization across the states in the last few decades, it has grown in importance and legitimacy as an alternative choice. Thus, it is now possible to…

This report presents the results of the largest survey and testing program for students in home schools to date. In Spring 1998, 20,760 K-12 home school students in 11,930 families were administered either the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP), depending on their current grade. The parents…