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title: Homeschooling
description: Homeschooling is educating children at home rather than at school. You will learn the main approaches and curricula, legal requirements, how to plan subjects by age, how to assess progress, and what research says about homeschooling outcomes.
category: personal-development
subcategory: education
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
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# Homeschooling

Homeschooling is educating children at home rather than at school. You will learn the main approaches and curricula, legal requirements, how to plan subjects by age, how to assess progress, and what research says about homeschooling outcomes.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 2 Websites • 1 Papers

## Books

### 1. The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Fourth Edition)

**Author:** Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise

Detailed K-12 plan for home education using the classical trivium model, with subject-by-subject curricula and book lists. It also covers standardized testing, learning challenges, dealing with school boards, high-school transcripts, and college applications.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393253627?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** homeschooling, classical-education, trivium, curriculum-planning, k-12

### 2. Home Learning Year by Year, Revised and Updated: How to Design a Creative and Comprehensive Homeschool Curriculum

**Author:** Rebecca Rupp

Secular grade-by-grade guide to building a homeschool curriculum from preschool through high school. For each year it gives typical skills and topics in language arts, math, science, history, and other subjects, with recommended books and materials.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525576967?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** homeschooling, curriculum-planning, secular-homeschool, k-12, grade-level-skills

### 3. How Children Learn

**Author:** John Holt

John Holt's observations of young children at home and in class as they teach themselves to talk, read, count and play, arguing that children learn best with minimal adult interference. Readers understand the founding case for unschooling, which rests on anecdote rather than experiment.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140225706?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** unschooling, homeschooling, self-directed-learning, early-learning, educational-philosophy

## Websites

### 1. Homeschooling Research Summaries

Plain-language summaries of homeschooling research: numbers and demographics, parents' motivations, academic achievement, socialization, long-term outcomes, and history. Each summary explains the sampling and design flaws in widely cited studies.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://crhe.org/research/summaries/

**Tags:** homeschooling, education-research, academic-outcomes, socialization, research-methods

### 2. Johns Hopkins Homeschool Hub

**Author:** Angela Watson

State-by-state reference on U.S. homeschooling: notification rules, instructor qualifications, required subjects, assessment requirements, regulatory history, and participation data for all 50 states, plus a national summary and the institute's Homeschool Research Lab findings.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://education.jhu.edu/edpolicy/policy-research-initiatives/homeschool-hub/

**Tags:** homeschooling, education-policy, homeschool-law, state-regulations, education-data

## Papers

### 1. Homeschooling: An Updated Comprehensive Survey of the Research

**Author:** Robert Kunzman, Milton Gaither

Peer-reviewed review of nearly all English-language homeschooling research. It covers demographics, curriculum, academic achievement, socialization, law, relationships with public schools, college and adult outcomes, and international homeschooling, and it assesses how reliable each body of evidence is.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** http://icher.org/files/Kunzman_and_Gaither_An%20Updated_Comprehensive_Survey.pdf

**Tags:** homeschooling, education-research, literature-review, academic-outcomes, socialization

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