Although reasonable statistics are difficult to obtain, estimates reveal that over one million children are currently being home-schooled in the United States (Isenberg 2007). Home education has become an increasingly popular option for children around the world, even in the United States where public education is freely accessible. In the United States, the practice of educating one’s own children rests on the notion that educational authority belongs with parents and not bureaucratic schooling systems, and on laws that protect a wide variety of ways that youth can be home-schooled in the absence of much regulations. The establishment of a legal right to home schooling, along with the advent of the Internet, has energized an incredible growth spurt in home schooling. Modern home schooling is marked by a wide variation that blends formal and informal schooling and, increasingly, correspondence programs or other web-based approaches to aid in instructional support, testing, grading,...
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Levesque, R.J.R. (2011). Home Schooling. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_432
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