id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 7d278s47p25 Dixie Dillon Lane Skipping School: Homeschooling in Los Angeles County, 1950-2010 2015 .txt text/plain 346 12 48 In a country famous for its early establishment of free schooling, American schools have historically provided foundational shared experiences for children, socializing them into American cultures and economies while also preparing them for intellectual adulthood. Yet in the 1950s, a small number of American parents began to reject normative schooling in favor of teaching their children themselves, an approach that had been out of favor for decades. cache/7d278s47p25.txt txt/7d278s47p25.txt