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.
Stable claims are deliberately selective: each one has a durable ID and explicit evidence boundary. They are not a count of every supported sentence in the reports.
Edition review snapshot
This historical snapshot is anchored to the authority edition date, not presented as a live monitor. The next-review dates below show when each source ledger is scheduled to be checked and republished.
The Global State of Homeschool Record-Keeping 2026
Checked · Review
The Global Homeschool Paperwork Burden Index 2026
Checked · Review
Homeschool Cost of Learning: A Selected-Market Framework (2026)
Checked · Review
Homeschool Transitions: A Selected-Jurisdiction Records Guide (2026)
Checked · Review
Focused Learning Time in Homeschooling: An Evidence-Bounded Review (2026)
Checked · Review
Homeschool Learning Portfolios: A Selected-Jurisdiction Benchmark (2026)
Checked · Review
Video Games and Homeschool Learning: An Evidence-Bounded Review (2026)
Checked · Review
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 selected-market framework for understanding direct spending, shared resources, public support, and the time economics of learning at home without inventing a global average.
Scope: Selected-market framework using country and United States examples
A Pre-K–8 records-first guide to re-entry, transfer, and later high-stakes handoffs, with advanced pathways included as forward-planning context.
Scope: Selected jurisdictions and receiving institutions across several regions
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 Pre-K–8 benchmark for family-owned portfolios that remain authentic to the learner and legible to an informed third party.
Scope: Selected-jurisdiction benchmark informed by 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.
