Our April roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month, on homeschooling in Vietnam; homeschooling in the United Arab Emirates; and homeschool support in Canada.
🔎 Homeschool Research & News
Monthly roundups of recent academic research and news about homeschooling, both positive and critical, with summaries and links to sources. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get more posts like these, along with a rich assortment of homeschool teaching materials, delivered right to your mailbox every week. 📫
❡ Explore more: For our general readership, we maintain twelve months' worth of research digests on this index page. If you'd like to investigate the academic literature on homeschooling more extensively, the best place to start is Google Scholar, the special academic search engine from Google. Just enter a search term or phrase of interest (“homeschool,” “unschooling,” “classical homeschooling,” “deschooling,” etc.), and Google Scholar will return a list of research publications that mention your topic. In addition, for research prior to 2020 in particular, see the detailed bibliographic essay by Kunzman & Gaither (2020), “Homeschooling: An Updated Comprehensive Survey of the Research.” 🔎
❡ An online conference: In the spring of 2021, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government hosted a series of online panel discussions about homeschooling that included contributions from homeschool researchers, advocates, critics, and parents. The videos of all those discussions are archived on the Kennedy School's website and they provide a good overview of the full spectrum of opinion on homeschooling policy, theory, and practice. 🖥
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – March 2024
Our March roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have two items this month, on homeschooling in China, and on science, politics, and religion in homeschooling.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – February 2024
Our February roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month, on homeschooling vs. unschooling; homeschooling in Indonesia; and homeschool internship programs. In addition, we take note of the new “Homeschool Hub” for research at Johns Hopkins University.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – January 2024
Our January roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month, on urban homeschooling; homeschooling in Japan; and homeschooling in Eastern Europe.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – December 2023
Our December roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have four items this month, on school psychology; black rural homeschooling; homeschooling in Indonesia; and homeschooling in India.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – November 2023
Our November roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month, on homeschool coverage in the Washington Post; comparative international homeschooling; and gifted homeschooling in Iran.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – October 2023
Our October roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have five items this month, on outdoor education and homeschooling; curriculum analysis; physical activity; digital technologies in homeschooling; and homeschool parental support.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – September 2023
Our September roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have four items this month, on homeschool rights; homeschooling in the Czech Republic and in Uzbekistan; and race and homeschooling.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – August 2023
Our August roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have five items this month, on homeschool nutrition; Missouri homeschool regulation; Chinese homeschooling; and more.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – July 2023
Our July roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have four items this month: Anders (2023), Boonanegpat & Kitcharoen (2023), Dewantara, Setiawati, & Saraswati (2023), and Forlin, Chambers, & Banks (2023).
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – June 2023
Our June roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month from all around the world: Barbaroș & Bocoș (2023), Fatima, Kaukab, & Sheikh (2023), and Pratiwi et al. (2023).
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – May 2023
Our May roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have four items this month: Chinazzi (2023), King (2023), Merrill (2023), and Sadorra (2023).