| This year is going to see some major changes | | | | organization and other news sources for changes |
| for homeschooling. The shifts are going to come | | | | that may affect them. |
| from three areas: changes in the law, changes in | | | | Online Homeschool resources are on the rise. |
| resources available to home educators, and a | | | | Online options for homeschool curriculum are going |
| rapidly growing homeschool population. | | | | to become an increasingly popular tool for parents |
| Over the last ten years, the number of | | | | educating their children through the high school |
| home-educated children in the United States and | | | | years. The traditional homeschool curriculum |
| territories has doubled. With the broadening | | | | publishers and online educational institutions are |
| number of families opting out of public or | | | | working together to develop products for the |
| accredited private or parochial education, states | | | | increasing number of families seeking to continue |
| have made moves to ensure standards through | | | | to homeschool into the high school years. With |
| passing new laws. While legislators may have had | | | | the ever-lowering cost of web-enabled computer |
| good intentions in seeking to monitor | | | | hardware, it is no longer cost prohibitive to have |
| homeschooling families, they have created a | | | | one or more computers for use in delivering |
| patchwork of regulations that often saddle | | | | instruction. As families educate multiple children, |
| parents significant new compliance responsibilities. | | | | older students become more self-sufficient and |
| As new laws are confronted by tests of their | | | | can work through an online homeschool curriculum |
| constitutionality, families should monitor | | | | with substantial independence. |