Ivy Waters measures the infrastructure of home education, not whether one family's educational choices are superior to another's.
Built to be read by families, checked by journalists, and interpreted correctly by machines.
The 2026 research shelf
Each report includes an executive summary, methodology and limitations, citation-ready figures, a downloadable PDF, practical interactives, FAQs, and a machine-readable research record.
A global infrastructure report on how home-educating families document learning, preserve evidence, and prepare records for moments that matter.
Scope: Global outlook with jurisdiction-specific examples, including the United States
A maintained comparison framework for what families must document, what prudent families choose to retain, and where administrative friction accumulates.
Scope: Global comparison with selected national and subnational examples
A decision-grade framework for understanding direct spending, shared resources, public support, and the time economics of learning at home.
Scope: Global framework with selected country and United States evidence
A records-first guide to re-entry, transfer, dual enrollment, graduation, further education, and other high-stakes educational handoffs.
Scope: Global outlook with institution- and jurisdiction-specific examples
What research can and cannot tell families about instructional time, attention, efficiency, breaks, and the difference between school-day duration and engaged learning.
Scope: International research synthesis with United States evidence clearly identified
A practical benchmark for creating family-owned portfolios that remain authentic to the learner and legible to an informed third party.
Scope: Global benchmark informed by selected official portfolio and assessment guidance
An evidence-bounded guide to what games may support, what they do not prove, and how families can observe and document learning without turning play into a worksheet.
Scope: International research synthesis with study populations identified
Every headline finding is labeled as sourced fact, bounded research synthesis, or Ivy Waters framework. Limitations travel with the claim.
Reports, claims, sources, and figures carry durable IDs. Source identities derive from canonical URLs rather than bibliography order.
The web report, PDF, figures, structured data, corrections feed, and AI index resolve to one authority registry.
Citation and corrections desk
Quote the claim ID, preserve its classification, and follow the report's inline citation to the original evidence. Substantive updates are versioned and logged rather than silently overwritten.
