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7 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2012-2013)
The Changing Conversation around Homeschooling: An Argument for More Data and less Ideology

handle is hein.journals/tjlpp7 and id is 7 raw text is: THE CHANGING CONVERSATION AROUND HOMESCHOOLING: AN ARGUMENT FOR MORE DATA AND LESS IDEOLOGY MARY RICE HASSON What follows are my reflections on one aspect of what has been, over the past few decades, an ever-changing, always fascinating public conversation' about the place of homeschooling in the modem educational fabric of our nation. The conversation is important, not only because it reflects stakeholders' current concerns and perceptions, but also because it shapes future policies, proposed legislation, and judicial perceptions, eventually influencing the educational roadmaps for children in families across the country. This essay looks first at the current homeschooling landscape, noting key changes that have swept through the homeschooling movement over the past several decades. Next it analyzes some of the assumptions implicit in the current conversations about homeschooling, and argues that these conversations increasingly reflect a conflict of values, ideologies, and worldviews, more than they reflect differences over educational pedagogy and practice. Finally this essay concludes with a call for the public conversation about homeschooling to focus on objective measures of homeschooling's educational impact, rather than on subjective judgments, tainted by ideology, about whether homeschooling renders children sufficiently receptive to progressive ideals. I. HOMESCHOOLING: EVERYTHING ABOUT IT HAS CHANGED (ALMOST). The changes in homeschooling within the United States over the past three decades have been nothing short of sweeping. 1 1. By public conversations, I include the conversations happening both within professional communities and among the public at large, as well as those conversations taking place in law reviews, educational journals, legislative chambers, school board meetings, churches, neighborhoods, and families.

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