Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement

By Joseph Murphy

This revealing and balanced portrait of homeschooling today provides a full history of the movement, demographic insights, and extensive research on how homeschooled children fare in the United States. Delving into a movement that impacts more students nationwide than the entire charter school movement, this book explores:

The history of homeschooling in America
How this movement has grown in credibility and enrollment exponentially
The current state of homeschooling, including questions about who gets homeschooled, why, and what is the successacademically and in lifeof students who are homeschooled
The impact of homeschooling on the student and on American society

In 2010, more than two million students were homeschooled. In the most extensive survey and analysis of research on homeschooling, spanning the birth of the movement in the 1970s to today, Homeschooling in America shines a light on one of the most important yet least understood social movements of the last forty years and explores what it means for education today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Feb 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781628739343

Joseph Murphy

Joseph Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written.