High Marks for Home Schooling, a Small Study Finds

In some cases, home schooling may give kids a leg up on their public-school peers, finds a small, new study published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural...

Home Sweet School: Home Sweet School

Earlier this month, J.C. Penney learned the hard way just how powerful the home-schooling movement has become. Penney's had recently started selling a T shirt...

The ABC's of Home Schooling

As a blissfully unattached single devoid of responsibility for anything (except my rent) and anyone (save my bevy of blissfully unattached friends), I've always...

Families: Home-School Report Card

Ben Allison, 27, of Hosmer, S.D., recently landed an associate's job at the prestigious New York City law firm of Dewey Ballantine. It was something of a...

Santorum’s Momentum Meets Romney’s Money in Illinois

John Zahm has his hands full. He is the only paid campaign staffer for Rick Santorum in the entire state of Illinois, which hosts the next crucial clash in the...

Home-Schooling an Assassin: A Hit-or-Miss Hanna

Hanna, Joe Wright's action thriller about a teenager trained from childhood to be an assassin, is the movie you'd most want to see projected on monitors the next...

Criminalizing Home Schoolers

Parents of the approximately 200,000 home-schooled children in California are reeling from the possibility that they may have to shutter their classrooms — and...

California Resists Home School Ruling

The parents of some 200,000 home-schooled kids in California were stunned last week when they learned that a judge had declared home schooling illegal unless...

21 Years Ago In Time

The growing popularity of home schooling is the latest sign of parental frustration with the schools their kids attend--and, as TIME noted in a 1980 cover story,...

Home (School) Improvement

Walk through the doors of Warehouse No. 2 at 701 East 37th Street in Wichita, Kans., on a weekday morning, and you will swear you have entered a school. Parent...