Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide

Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide will help librarians understand and serve their homeschooling community.

Chapter 1 covers the early history of homeschooling and how compulsory education changed how our children were schooled.

Chapter 2 explores the homeschool revolution, when parents began to take back the education of their children.

Chapter 3 looks at homeschooling today and the way laws, advocacy groups, and COVID-19 all contributed to a surge in homeschooling families.

Chapter 4 examines the various methods parents use to educate their children at home.

From an at home classrooms to travelschooling, parents are creative in teaching their children.

Chapter 5 is the how-to-do-it for libraries.

Learn how public libraries can help parents and caregivers teach their children by providing a place, materials, programs, and more.

Chapter 6, explores various ways of reaching the homeschooling community we want to serve.

Chapter 7 looks at the growing diversity in home education.

Finally, Chapter 8 peers into the future of homeschooling, helping us prepare for the needs of future homeschooling families.