I was homeschooled most of my k-12, attending a couple years of private school.

In 2011 I founded Roman Roads Press with the specific goal of publishing classical curriculum for homeschoolers, as most of the curriculum at the time was merely adapted for home use.

But since 2011 and 2025, some fairly major shifts happened in private education, and the great divide between “traditional schools” (5-day, brick-and-mortar schools), and homeschooling all but disappeared. The majority of private education now happens in an “in between” that did not exist when I was growing up. The “solo-homeschooler” has all but disappeared, and traditional schools are borrowing more and more from homeschooling principles. Most of the clientele of Roman Roads Press is now somewhere in that “in between.”

I plan to unpack this in a series of posts, but to start, a question:

If you grew up with a Christian education, from your vantage point, how has education changed? (If you have kids, what are you doing for their education?)

Image: A one-room schoolhouse from early America, to illustrate just how much change has happened. Likely none of us experienced anything like that, yet I’m including to illustrate how norms change.