Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

These factors affect everyone, but some of them affect homeschoolers more than most. For example, because so many homeschoolers are entrepreneurial, we weigh a state’s entrepreneurship climate somewhat more heavily than other “Best Places to Live” rankings in the popular press. See the spreadsheets for info on all of the factors used and how the states rank on each factor.

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Although research shows that homeschooling gives children a better education than public schools, many families think that they can’t afford it. They worry about losing the paycheck of the parent who stays home to homeschool the kids. But giving up that paycheck could be a smart money move. Here are three reasons why.

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Some of the biggest battleground states in this election are also among the biggest homeschooling states, such as Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. So, it’s probably worth noting that a lot of homeschoolers are liberal Democrats, and their party is kissing them off.

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No one could call Louie Free conventional. Host of The Louie Free Radio Show (billed as The Intelligent Alternative: Brain Food from the Heartland) he invited us to discuss homeschooling and our book for almost an hour today.

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Barry Lynn, host of the radio show Culture Shocks interviewed us today. In a forty minute segment, Lynn disputed the notion that people can homeschool without teaching credentials, insisted that public schools are doing just fine for most kids, and challenged homeschoolers who don’t like something about their school system to stay in the system and change it instead of homeschooling.

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