Why Do More And More Children Choose Homeschooling In The U.S.?

In recent years, a growing number of school-age children and adolescents do not go to school, but choose to receive homeschooling in more and more countries. Homeschooling is an alternative non-institutionalized form of education,which is the embodiment of educational diversity.Currently,in China,though homeschooling has started to accelerate, the public have lack of knowledge about it, and a good environment for the sustainable development hasn’t been formed. On the contrary, home schooling has developed into a more maturing educational form and has strong vitality in the United States. The research used literature research, historical research, comparative studies and case analysis, which analyzed the development dynamic of American homeschooling from multidimension, and intended by in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon that more and more public chose homeschooling, in order to correctly understand and deal with home schooling.This article is divided into three parts:This first part is about the historical development of American homeschooling from the historical evolution dimension. Homeschooling has undergone four development stages: Homeschooling was sprouted when the "Common School Movement" was been spreading; Homeschooling arose when the public education was beset with crisis; Homeschooling gradually legalized in the eighties and nineties of the 20 th century, then stepped into a stage of stable development.At each stage, homeschooling was driven by internal and external causes and constantly adjusted and improved to follow in the footsteps of historical development to become "fittest", which has a strong history vitality.The second part presents the real prospect of homeschooling in the United States from the operating system Dimension. Home schools in the American education system is an alternative educational form in addition to public schools and private schools. The home school size has been growing since the "home school movement" spread,and in practice to build the featured management and support system as well as effective teaching operation systems. Healthy eco-system is the vitality of the homeschooling system.This three part is about the market viability of home school among free competition system in the United States from individual select dimension. Where there is selective, there is a market; Where there is market,there is competition. The reason why homeschooling has market vitality in the United States is that the parents and students choice freely and deliberately. Home school which is flexible,diverse,personalized more easily makes educational concepts of the new era into come true, and makes it easier to meet the special needs of different individuals.Significantly effectiveness of home school and its derivatives are attractive to practical Americans.