The Homeschooling Handbook is a secular, solid overview of the homeschooling experience. She presents a great deal of information to help parents determine if homeschooling is right for their family. The book considers why families homeschool. The results of ten homeschooling studies are presented. She says we can't prove that it works, but academics are often the least of the worries connected with homeschooling.
Legal concerns are often paramount in the minds of new homeschoolers.
She sums up North American homeschooling laws in general and how to heed the law in several representative US states. The author believes homeschoolers should learn about local law and practice homeschooling quite openly. In Chapter 3 educational theorists Steiner, Montessori, Mason, Holt and Gardner are discussed. One can order a complete curriculum from a publisher, but if the parent does her own recordkeeping, she can skip any redundant drill work and add subjects of interest, such as sign language, typing or a unit study on baseball. The next three chapters apply the different homeschool structures to various age groups, to see how things are going for real homeschooling families.