Tag Archives: National Center for Education Statistics

Flexischooling in Scotland

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Milton Gaither

Record: Dumfries and Galloway Parenting Science Gang, “Flexischooling in Scotland: What We Did and Why” in Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives 8(2019): 58-67. Summary: The Dumfries and Galloway Parenting Science Gang is a Facebook group formed in 2017 of four women … Continue reading →

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Major Update to State Homeschooling Data

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Milton Gaither

Over on ICHER’s main page you can find the just updated data maintained by various  state departments of education.  Let me be quick to repeat what I’ve said for years, that the numbers reported here are unreliable for at least these reasons: … Continue reading →

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NCES HOMESCHOOLING DATA: First Look from 2016

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Robert Lyon

Record: Meghan McQuiggan, Mahi Megra, and Sara Grady, Parent and Family Involvement in Education: Results from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2016, (NCES 2017-2012) (U.S. Department of Education: Washington, D.C., 2017) [Available Here] Introduction: Every four or five years, the … Continue reading →

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NCES HOMESCHOOLING DATA: 2012 Complete Report

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Robert Lyon

Record: Jeremy Redford, Danielle Battle, Stacey Bielick, and Sarah Grady, Homeschooling in the United States: 2012, (NCES 2016-096) (U.S. Department of Education: Washington, D.C., 2016) [Available Here] Introduction: Every four or five years, the National Household Education Survey developed by the National Center … Continue reading →

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HOME IS WHERE THE SCHOOL IS: Do Homeschooling Laws Increase Homeschooling?

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Rachana Bhatt, “Home is Where the School Is: The Impact of Homeschool Legislation on School Choice” in Journal of School Choice 8, no. 2 (2014): 192-212. [Abstract Here] Summary:  Bhatt, an economics professor at Georgia State University, here presents … Continue reading →

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USING A SEEDED SAMPLE: Are Homeschoolers Over or Under Represented in Surveys?

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record:  Stacey Bielick, Lina Guzman, Astrid Atienza, and Andrew Rivers, “Using a Seeded Sample to Measure Response among Homeschooling Households” in Survey Practice 2, no. 9 (2009).  Available Here.  Summary:  Bielick and colleagues used a complex and creative sampling strategy … Continue reading →

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New NCES Homeschooling Data!

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Amber Noel, Patrick Stark, and Jeremy Redford, Parent and Family Involvement in Education, from the National Household Education Survey Program of 2012, (NCES 2013-028) (U.S. Department of Education: Washington, D.C., 2013)[Available Here] Summary: Every four years the National Center … Continue reading →

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RESISTING THE STATUS QUO: Black Homeschoolers in Atlanta and Washington DC

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Cheryl Fields-Smith and Monica Wells Kisura, “Resisting the Status Quo: The Narratives of Black Homeschoolers in Metro-Atlanta and Metro-DC” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 265-283. Summary:  Fields-Smith of the University of Georgia, whose pathbreaking work … Continue reading →

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HOMESCHOOLING IN AMERICA: A Book-Length Survey of Homeschooling Research

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Joseph Murphy, Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2012). Murphy, Associate Dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University and author of many, many books and articles on a wide range of … Continue reading →

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