homeschooling
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of homeschooling
First recorded in 1985–90
Example Sentences
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Ms. Lane takes issue with how these horrific experiences have been presented as arguments against all homeschooling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Some Catholic families turned to homeschooling after Vatican II, the 1960s council responsible for modernizing the Catholic Church, led to concerns that even local parochial schools were losing their conservative moral values.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
While the return to in-person education after the pandemic led to a decline in homeschooling rates, recent analysis indicates that rates are settling above prepandemic levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The problem Ms. Lane raises thus also persists: “How can we understand homeschooling on a national level when it is a practice first and foremost characterized by family privacy?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
By that time, my mother had ended up homeschooling me and didn’t want to take me anywhere, and then Charlie was born and they didn’t have the money to take both of us.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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