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Pandeducation: Should Parents Teach at Home During a Pandemic?

Millions of parents have an important decision to make this fall: Should I leave my child in venerable, but uncertain, school environment, or try to teach at home? It might help to understand some of the basic concepts about homeschooling (also known as home-based education). The practice is already firmly established as a school choice option in this country, but is often overlooked as being a fringe practice—or at least not one that is mainstream. It also involves a degree of effort that may not be a good fit for the family. However, as the nation wrangles with the decision in the context of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, there is potential for the movement to blossom as parents don the new mantle of pandeducation.