“Current Controversies: Homeschooling”
Written by Myra Immell (Greenhaven Press, 2008). Immell compiles a variety of views on different topics of discussion in the homeschooling movement.
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.
Read a June 5, 2006, New York Times article about homeschooling trends in the United States.
Read an Associated Press story posted March 4, 2009, at USAToday.com about homeschooling during the economic downturn.
Read an Aug. 6, 2009, article from The Economist about the reasons families are choosing to homeschool their children.
See a Sept. 1, 2009, Fox News story about efforts to reverse a family-law judge’s ruling that a homeschooled girl should be moved into public education; among those protesting the ruling are religious-freedom advocates.
HomeSchoolFacts.com has news pages and forums and lists some of the more popular curriculum packages used by Christian homeschoolers.