Resources Nethomeschool

Q. How many home schoolers are there nationwide?
A. In a study published in 1997, Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute estimated that there were 1.23 million children home schooled in America during the 1996-1997 school year.

Home schooling has grown at about 15% per year since 1990. With this growth rate in consideration HSLDA estimates there are about 1.5 million children home schooling in the 1997-1998 school year. In March of 1997 a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that 6% of parents “Home-schooled, keeping [their] child out of school and teaching the child at home.”

Q. Why do parents decide to home educate their children?
A. Most parents decide to home school because they feel they can provide a better education for their children than public schools or private schools offer. The rampant problems of drugs, crime, violence, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases in our nation’s schools are compelling parents to find alternative learning environments free from these social ills. Home schooling allows parents to promote good academics, common sense morality, and family unity.

Q. Is home schooling legal in all 50 states?
A. Yes. Each state has its own statutes, court decisions, or regulations that pertain to home schooling. (For more information on a particular state, please contact HSLDA.)

Q. What are some of the more restrictive states for home schooling?
A. The battlegrounds shift around the nation. Over the years we have faced fierce or multiple legal conflicts in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Iowa, Tennessee, New York, Rhode Island, and North Dakota just to name a few.

Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education
ALLPIE is a nonprofit organization which assists and encourages parental involvement in education, wherever that education takes place: in public school, in private school, or at home.

American Homeschool Association (AHA)
The American Homeschool Association (AHA) is a free service organization supporting the continued growth of the homeschooling movement by providing communications and networking for homeschooling families and anyone interested in home education.

Catholic Home School Network of America. CHSNA acts on behalf of Catholics who want to freely exercise their God-given rights as primary educators of their children at home. Has a quarterly newsletter, "The Domestic Church", represent your interests with diocesan officials and church and/or church-related organizations and more. Annual fee is $15.00.

Home Educator's Network, Inc. This non-profit organization provides educational support for parents, students, and educators. Program covers from zero months to grade 12. Also features second chance programs for learning disabled, pre-mature motherhood and persons whose education has been interrupted by illness or accident or some other unforeseen occurrence.

Homeschoolers' Organizations List
A guide to finding local, regional and national groups.

Home School Legal Defense Association
A non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.

National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children was formed over 30 years ago. The main goal of The Foundation was to get much needed information to the parents of gifted children. The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children is a non-profit, non-sectarian, organization.

National Homeschool Association
The National Homeschool Association exists to advocate individual choice and freedom in education, to serve those families who choose to homeschool, and to inform the general public about home education.

National Newsletter: Home School Headlines
Home School Headlines is crammed full of vital, stimulating information and encouragement for new and veteran homeschoolers alike. Our goal is to empower homeschoolers to confidently make informed decisions for their families. Email: homesh@cvn.net. Phone 717-528-8850.

National Private Schools Association Group
We at NPSAG, believe that our Accreditation Alliance provides a Quick, Easy and Affordable route to Private School Accreditation without jumping through endless hoops. We seek to preserve the uniqueness of the Individual Private School and its Educational Program and promote the notion of Voluntary Participation in the Accreditation Process, which publicly demonstrates the Private Schools commitment to the Educational Profession, through an independent third party, without Government interference.

Native American Homeschool Association Web Site
We lose our culture a little at a time through forced policies of assimilation and cultural genocide. More and more we see families of the Christian right withdrawing their Children from public schools to instill within their children not only a desire to learn to learn, but also to instill within their children a sense of their own values. As parents, communities, tribes, and Nations of the original people of this continent, and also the original homeschoolers of this land, we can learn a lot from the political structures and advances of the Christian homeschooling movement.

N.H.E.R.I.
The mission of NHERI is three-fold; 1) to produce high-quality research on home education, 2) to serve as a clearinghouse of research for home educators, researchers, policy makers, and the media and 3) to educate the public concerning the findings of all such research. N.H.E.R.I. was founded by Dr. Brian Ray, who has been the editor of the journal Home School Researcher since 1985.