An Evaluation of the Historical Development and Recent State of Homeschooling in the USA

Abstract

At the end of 1960s, a time when the requirement to attend formal educationinstitutions for a more promising future was commonly acknowledged, homeschoolingemerged as a practice in which parents themselves undertook responsibility foreducating their children instead of directing them to professionals. Having emerged asa social movement in the educational field, homeschooling is an alternative choice ofeducation that is practiced legally in many countries besides the USA. One of the basicconclusions of this study, in which an overview of the emergence of homeschoolingin the USA and its current situation have been taken, is that homeschooling, afteremerging as a reaction against institutional education, has lost its marginality; and thatin parallel to its legitimization, it has been transformed into a segment of institutionaleducation today.