When Angela R. Watson began to research homeschooling—specifically, which U.S. parents decide to educate their children outside of traditional school settings and why—she found that the topic was essentially a data void. This was back in 2019, when Watson had just earned her Ph.D. in education policy—deciding, after initially getting a traditional teaching degree, that she could have a larger impact in the space through research.
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