Children studying at home in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in February 1936. (Photo by: GHI/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
From Abigail Adams to Abraham Lincoln, in-home learning is a deeply American tradition.
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A few years ago I was at a party in Paris, which sounds much more glamorous than it actually was. I was making awkward small talk when someone made things worse by asking me what my current research project was about.













