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Practical Homeschooling Info

Brave Learner by Julie Bogart

Free Range Learning by Laura Grace Weldon

Home Learning Year by Year by Rebecca Rupp

Home Grown by Ben Hewitt

The Homeschooling Book of Answers compiled by Linda Dobson

Homeschooling on a Shoestring by Melissa L. Morgan & Judith Waite Allee

Project-Based Homeschooling by Lori McWilliam Pickert

Slow Homeschooling by Milva McDonald

Teach Your Own by John Holt

Unschoolers by Sophia Sayigh & Milva McDonald

The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith

The Well-Adjusted Child by Rachel Gathercole

Slow Homeschooling (podcast)

Cathy Duffy Reviews

Common Sense Media

Growing Without Schooling (magazine)

Home with Kids 24/7

Homeschooling Styles

Life Learning Magazine

Meet Massachusetts Homeschoolers

PBS Learning Media

Project Giving Kids

Unschooling FAQ

World Book Typical Course of Study

Young Audiences of Massachusetts

Early Years

The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson

The Hurried Child by David Elkind

Learning All the Time by John Holt

Miseducation by David Elkind

Playful Learning: An Alternate Approach to Preschool by Anne Engelhardt

Living and Learning with Your Little Ones

Teens and College

Better Than College by Blake Boles

College Without High School by Blake Boles

The Film Club by David Gilmour

I Don't Want to Go to College by Heather Hutchins

Parent-Teen Breakthrough by Mira Kirshenbaum

The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

The Uncollege Alternative by Danielle Kwatinetz-Wood

Finding College Scholarships and Grants

Homeschooling for College Admission, Part 1

Homeschooling for College Admission, Part 2

Homeschooling High School FAQ

Homeschooling Teens: The World Is Your Oyster

Massachusetts Employment Permit Application for 14 through 17 Year-Olds

Public High School Diplomas, the HiSET/GED, and Homeschoolers

Splash: List of Learning Unlimited Programs for Middle and High School Students

Tips and Tricks for CLEP Exams

Undergraduate Admissions Standards for the Massachusetts State University System and the University of Massachusetts - Reference Guide 2019

Food for Thought

Deschooling Society — Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

Escape from Childhood — Escape from Childhood by John Holt

Family Matters — Family Matters by David Guterson

Hold Onto Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld

How Children Fail by John Holt

How Children Learn by John Holt

No Dream Deferred by Zakkiyya Chase

Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn

A Sense of Self by Susannah Sheffer

Unschooling Rules by Clark Aldrich

Being and Becoming (film)

Class Dismissed (film)

A Potluck Life (blog)

Carol Black (blog)

Research and Scholarly Articles

Hudson, L., Kaatz, T., Battle, D., Hall, L., Bahr, S. and Eyster, S. (2023). 2019 Homeschooling and Full-Time Virtual Education Rates (NCES 2023-101). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

Mazama, A. (2016). African American homeschooling practices: Empirical evidence. Theory and Research in Education, 14(1), 26–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878515615734

McQuiggan, M. and Megra, M. (2017). Parent and Family Involvement in Education: Results from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2016 (NCES 2017-102). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Measuring the Homeschool Population

National Center for Education Statistics. (2022). Homeschooled Children and Reasons for Homeschooling. Condition of Education. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.

Redford, J., Battle, D., and Bielick, S. (2017). Homeschooling in the United States: 2012 (NCES 2016-096.REV). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

Wang, K., Rathbun, A., and Musu, L. (2019). School Choice in the United States: 2019 (NCES 2019-106). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved [August 16, 2020] from https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch.