Mothers as Architects: The Women Dismantling Centralized Schooling One Household at a Time
American mothers have always been among the most formidable forces in the shaping of civic life — and today, a growing number of them are channeling that force into one of the most consequential decisions a family can make. The homeschooling movement, long caricatured as a fringe pursuit of religious separatists, has evolved into a broad, intellectually serious, and philosophically deliberate rejection of the centralized education apparatus. At its forefront, as ever, stand women.