Home Schooling in the U.S.

Area 1: Historical Aspects of Home Schooling

Dupont-de-Nemours, P.S. (1923). National education in the United States of America. Newark, DEL: University of Delaware Press.

Tobak, T. & Zirkel, P.A. (1982). Home instruction: An analysis of the statutes and case law. University of Dayton Law Review, 8, 13-14.

These publications made the point that, historically, home schooling was viewed as a right of the American public.

Whitehead, J.W. & Bird, W.R. (1984). Home education and constitutional liberties: The Rutherford Institute Report, Vol. 2 Westchester, ILL: Crossway Books.

This publication listed several key cases in early American history and beyond which upheld home schooling as a constitutional and parental right.

Area 2: Reasons Why Parents Choose To Home School

Kilgore, P. (1987). Profile of families who home school in Maine. ERIC DOCUMENT ERIC ED 295 280.

Marshner, C. (1984). A blueprint for educational reform. ERIC DOCUMENT ERIC ED 250 766.

Mayberry, M. (1991). Political and religious characteristics of home school parents: results of an ongoing study in four western states. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL:, April 3 -

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