Live Online Policy Forum # The Status of Homeschooling Two Years into the Pandemic ##### Watch the Event Download: [ Video ](https://fastly-unsigned-us-east-1-prod.brightcovecdn.com/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/6039378657001/97976d27-cd18-4bef-96b4-d9f22dfe9796/8ae8e0a1-e11e-4839-aa51-83056f3c91e8/main.mp4) [ Audio ](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5e2e15a046f4465f31c89d8c/1648065936180-7eda1efa52fafe566f7c710657844641.mp3) Join the conversation on X using [\#WWFSchool](https://x.com/hashtag/WWFSchool). Follow [@CatoInstitute](https://x.com/catoinstitute) on X to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute. Date and Time March 23, 2022 12 - 1:30 PM EDT Location Live Online Share This Event ##### Featuring ![Bernita Bradley](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2022-03/bernita-bradley.jpg?itok=mWzAFvXf) Bernita Bradley Founder, Engaged Detroit ![Amber Brown](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2022-03/Amber-Brown-300.jpg?itok=MxUGfkaY) Amber Brown Cofounder, Barefoot University ![Eric Wearne](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2022-03/eric-wearne.jpg?itok=7Jt6j9M5) Eric Wearne Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University [ ](https://twitter.com/eric_wearne) [![Colleen Hroncich cropped](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2025-06/Colleen%20Hroncich%20cropped.jpg?itok=OWGarcCl)](/people/colleen-hroncich) [Colleen Hroncich](/people/colleen-hroncich) Policy Analyst, Cato Institute [ ](https://x.com/ColleenHroncich) [ ](mailto:chroncich@cato.org) On March 26, 2020—two weeks after schools around the country were shuttered and suddenly almost everyone was receiving education at home—Cato convened an expert panel to give advice and answer questions about homeschooling. It is unlikely anyone who participated in that discussion expected we would still be dealing with school closures two years later. While there are lags in official data, it appears that homeschooling has greatly increased since March 2020. Is that accurate? What has the experience been like for families, including longtime homeschoolers and newbies who started during the pandemic? What lessons have been learned? We’ll mark the two-year anniversary of school closures with a panel discussion on homeschooling today. Featuring a diverse group whose experiences include urban homeschooling, hybrid homeschooling, and forest schools, this panel is designed to assess the current state of homeschooling and help parents understand the wide variety of options available to them. ### Related Content - [Beating the COVID-19 Education Disruption: Answering YOUR Questions](https://www.cato.org/events/beating-covid-19-education-disruption), Cato Policy Forum [![Stack of Books square](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/promo_block/public/2022-03/stack-of-books-square.jpg?itok=s79I9jKz)](https://www.cato.org/events/peace-through-school-choice-examining-evidence) ##### Related Event ### [Peace through School Choice: Examining the Evidence](https://www.cato.org/events/peace-through-school-choice-examining-evidence) **March 22, 2022 • 12 - 1:30 PM EDT** Public schooling, by forcing people with diverse values and needs to fund a single system of government schools, inevitably produces conflict. Such conflict has reached a fever pitch over the last several years, with Americans battling over critical race theory, LGBTQ issues, COVID-19 masking, and more. Logically, school choice would defuse such conflict, enabling diverse people to choose what they think is best rather than having to fight for control of a single system. But is there evidence of that working? If so, where? And how does that not lead to Balkanization? [Event Details](https://www.cato.org/events/peace-through-school-choice-examining-evidence) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).