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1KHO 957: Americans Didn't Always Believe There Was Only One Way to Educate a Child | Dixie Dillon Lane, Skipping School
The way we educate children today isn't the way we've always done it. In fact, many of the practices parents take for granted are surprisingly recent developments in American history.
Historian and homeschooling mother Dixie Dillon Lane, author of Skipping School, joins Ginny Yurich to uncover how homeschooling went from an underground movement, where families sometimes hid their children to avoid legal trouble, to a mainstream educational choice embraced by millions.
Along the way, they explore why early homeschooling pioneers challenged the push toward younger academic instruction, how…
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