WaPo’s Evenhanded Homeschooling Analysis

As a homeschooler, you don’t generally expect balanced coverage of homeschooling from mainstream media outlets. So my expectations for a recent Washington Post report on homeschooling were low—the bar was on the floor, as my daughter likes to say. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually pretty evenhanded.The report, “Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest‐​growing form of education,” is the latest installment in the Post’s Home‐​School Nation series. It’s likely the most in‐​depth analysis of homeschooling to date, and the big takeaway is that homeschooling is the fastest growing education model in the US. Homeschooling spiked during COVID-19 and then dipped a little, but the report estimates the number of children homeschooling was 45 percent higher in the 2022–23 school year than it was in 2017–18.