Service to Homeschooling Families: LA and Santa Maria Pre-Workshop Assignment Part 2

Another resource I think is valuable to those who want to learn more about homeschooling (which I’ve linked to here before and that I’ll be citing several times in the workshops next week) is the National Center for Education Statistics’ report, “Homeschooling in the United States: 2003.” The stats are a bit dated at this [...]

Service to Homeschooling Families: Infopeople Pre-Workshop Assignment, Part 2

Another resource I think is valuable to those who want to learn more about homeschooling (which I’ve linked to here before and that I’ll be citing several times in the workshop next week) is the National Center for Education Statistics’ report, “Homeschooling in the United States: 2003.” The stats are a bit dated at this [...]

Just in Time for Christmas: New Information on Homeschoolers from the National Center for Education Statistics

Just today, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has issued a new “In Brief” report, “1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007.” I may be the only girl who was waiting on the edge of her seat for this data, but this is the first reporting on the NCES’s planned update [...]

Service to Homeschooling Families, San Francisco: Pre-Workshop Assignment, Part 2

Happy post-Thanksgiving weekend!
Another resource I think is valuable to those who want to learn more about homeschooling (which I’ve linked to here before and that I’ll be citing several times in the workshop next week) is the National Center for Education Statistics’ report, “Homeschooling in the United States: 2003.” The stats are a bit dated [...]

Research on Library Services to Homeschoolers

McCarthy, Amy, and Deborah Lines Andersen. “Homeschoolers at the Public Library: Are Library Services and Policies Keeping Pace?” JLAMS 3, no. 1: 5-44.
You can find this article here (pdf document, scroll to page 5 to find article). This is an excellent article: well thought-out, well-researched, informative. It’s a must-read for librarians interested in learning more [...]

Research Articles?

Fisher, Jeffrey C., and Don A. Wicks. “Bookmobile Services to Homeschoolers in Ohio.” Bookmobiles and Outreach Services 7, no. 1: 7-28.
There are many problems endemic in research and writing by and about librarians and homeschoolers, and this article is a perfect example. (Sadly, it’s not freely available online, so you’ll have to use your mad [...]

Report from the National Center for Education Statistics

It’s hard to get statistics on homeschoolers for all sorts of reasons: many guard their privacy, the definition of “homeschooling” varies from state to state (and even district to district), and it’s hard to get a statistically significant sample together. That said, the National Center for Education Statistics has an interesting report on homeschoolers and [...]