1848 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. Oct. 297/1 We have struck a blow at that home-schooling, under which for so many hundred years Englishmen have been bred. Formerly, the cotter had the whole care of his children.

1899 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 4 Oct. 4/4 Judge Dawson's mother..prepared him in his youth to enter college. After his home schooling Judge Dawson entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg.

1910 Iowa City Daily Press 30 June 4/3 There is..no home schooling necessary in the presence of the modern kindergarten.

1958 W. M. Cruickshank & G. O. Johnson Educ. Exceptional Children & Youth 534 Children who will never attend school need a somewhat different program. Throughout their long specialized home schooling, the teacher should focus on realism as the over-all theme.

1984 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 17/5 Home-schooling demands commitment, organisation and flexibility.

2002 Ottawa Citizen 11 Mar. b1 The Ottawa school board has been unusually open to home schooling.

1963 Monroe County (Iowa) News 24 June 4/5 It may even schedule audio-visual segments of home-schooling programs for the half day of school which children will spend in their own library.

1981 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. c1/1 Dr. Raymond Moore, the author of ‘School Can Wait’, in which he advocates teaching children at home until the age of 8 or 10, calls the home schooling movement the ‘educational issue of the 1980's’.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xxi. 412 In 1986, the district attorney in Santa Barbara charged two home-schooling families with truancy, but a judge dismissed both cases.

2001 Time 27 Aug. 47/1 [They] learned just how powerful the home-schooling movement has become.