1st Edition
Post-Pandemic Research on Modern American Homeschooling Demographic Trends and Policies
Introduction: Academic Research on Modern Homeschooling in America
Angela R. Watson
1. Homeschool Participation: Post-Pandemic Persistence and Growth Trends
Angela R. Watson
2. The Year-By-Year Primary and Secondary Education Histories of Homeschooled Individuals and the Implications for Empirical Homeschooling Research
Albert Cheng
3. How Do Demographic Characteristics of Homeschooling Households Influence the Way Homeschooling is Practiced?
Albert Cheng and Angela R. Watson
4. Estimating Homeschool Participation in the U.S.: What We Can Learn from the Household Pulse Survey
Genevieve Smith and Angela R. Watson
5. Taking Attendance: Estimating Homeschooling Populations in States without Official Homeschool Data – a Pilot Analysis in Missouri
Amy Shelton and Collin Hitt
6. A Heuristic Model to Guide the Study of Homeschoolers’ Academic Competence
Carlos Valiente, Tracy L. Spinrad, Nancy Eisenberg, and Brian Ray
7. Data or Ideology: What is Driving Homeschooling Policy Around the World, and Why?
Michael Donnelly
8. Johns Hopkins 2024 Homeschool Policy Summit Outcome Summary
Angela R. Watson
Biography
Angela R. Watson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Education Policy. She has researched homeschooling for nearly a decade and is the director of the Johns Hopkins Homeschool Research Lab and the creator of the Homeschool Hub – the leading repository of longitudinal homeschool participation data. She is widely regarded as a national and international expert on homeschooling.
