Read a June 5, 2006, New York Times article about homeschooling trends in the United States.

Read an article from the January/February 2007 issue of Mothering magazine posted at Cafemom.com about black families who choose to homeschool.

Read a June 11, 2007, Washington Post article about the successes of homeschooling.

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.

Read a Sept. 28, 2009, post at Salon.com written by the father of homeschooled children.

Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. He specializes in issues of criminology, violence and family law.

Steven J. Sandage is associate professor of marriage and family studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn. A psychologist, he is co-author of The Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation and To Forgive Is Human: How to Put Your Past in the Past.