This post reviews Linda G. Hanna, “Homeschooling Education: Longitudinal Study of Methods, Materials, and Curricula” in Education and Urban Society 20, no. 10 (2012): 1-23.
Hanna, an education professor at West Chester University, here gives us the results of a study of 225 homeschooling families coming from 25 school districts in Pennsylvania to get representative data on who chooses to homeschool, why they choose it, and how they do it. She surveyed and interviewed these families in 1998 and then went back to them 10 years later for another round of questions. Thus we have here one of the only longitudinal studies of homeschooling ever done. (more…)
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