{"id":13629,"date":"2013-03-01T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2013-03-01T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:51:07","slug":"the-international-center-for-home-education-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2013\/03\/the-international-center-for-home-education-research.html","title":{"rendered":"The International Center for Home Education Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Last year a group of scholars founded the International Center for Home Education Research<\/a>. I am actually really excited about this development. For too long HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) has reined as the go-to organization for information about homeschoolers and homeschooling, and, well, let\u2019s just say that that\u2019s a major conflict of interest. They\u2019re an advocacy group. Next is the National Home Education Research Institute, which essentially functions as HSLDA\u2019s research arm and uses shoddy research methods. I\u2019m glad there is now another contender.<\/p>\n

ICHER\u2019s about page explains that the organization was founded in part to combat both bad research and sloppy interpretation and reporting of what research exists\u2014no matter which \u201cside\u201d is engaged in it:<\/p>\n

The International Center for\u00a0Home Education Research<\/a>\u00a0was founded in 2012 by a group of international scholars with more than 65 years of combined experience studying homeschooling.\u00a0 What sets ICHER apart from most national and international homeschool organizations is that we are not an advocacy group.\u00a0 As longtime observers of home education across a variety of contexts, we have great appreciation for homeschooling\u2019s value and importance, but our purpose is not to promote home education or argue for its superiority over other forms of schooling.<\/p>\n

Instead, our goals are threefold:<\/p>\n