Ann Zeise runs A to Z Home’s Cool, a large resource site for homeschoolers that is based in Milpitas, Calif.

Brian D. Ray is founder and president of the nonprofit National Home Education Research Institute in Salem, Ore.

Robert Kunzman is an associate professor at Indiana University (Bloomington) School of Education. He posts the Homeschooling Research & Scholarship Web site. He is the author of Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (2009).

Milton Gaither is associate professor of education at Messiah College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grantham, Pa. He is the author of Homeschool: An American History (2008).

Bruce S. Cooper is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in Manhattan. He edited Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader.

Written by Myra Immell (Greenhaven Press, 2008). Immell compiles a variety of views on different topics of discussion in the homeschooling movement.

Written by Bruce S. Cooper, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University (IAP, 2005). Cooper discusses the history of homeschooling and analyzes the movement.

Read  a July 1, 2000, history of the modern homeschooling movement by Patricia Lines, a former senior research analyst for the U.S. Department of Education.

Listen to the 2001 All Things Considered series about the reasons parents choose to homeschool their children.