This post reviews Henk Blok and Sjoerd Karsten, “Inspection of Home Education in European Countries” in European Journal of Education 46, no. 1 (2011), pp. 138-152.
Blok and Karsten, both at the Kohnstamm Institute at the University of Amsterdam, here summarize what is known about homeschooling regulations in 14 European countries.
The countries covered are these: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Sweden.
For each the authors give a succinct summary of the nation’s homeschooling situation, and they recap it all in a convenient chart. Over at the ICHER website we have our own graphic with some of this information, but Blok and Karsten give much more detail.
After summarizing the situation in each of the 14 countries they make a few generalizations and conclude with four policy recommendations. First the generalizations: (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. 
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