Opinion: How homeschooling became the biggest trend in American education

 November 2, 2023

Opinion: How homeschooling became the biggest trend in American education

A new Washington Post report finds homeschooling now crossing all political, demographic, and geographic lines

JAY EVENSON, DESERET NEWS — I have an 8-year-old granddaughter in Virginia who is being home-schooled. Her mother didn’t know she was part of a powerful nationwide trend bubbling just beneath the surface of American culture, brought to light this week in a Washington Post report. The most important thing to her, she told me in a text, was to be able to meet her daughter where she is, academically — adjusting lesson plans to move quickly through materials she has mastered, while spending more time on things her daughter is struggling to learn.... (more)