Does Homeschooling or Private Schooling Promote Political Intolerance? Evidence From a Christian University

undergraduates at a single evangelical Christian university

Students at one US evangelical Christian university, varying in years of exposure to home-schooling, private schooling and public schooling

OLS on a single-institution convenience sample. The exposure is dose-like (years of each schooling type) rather than binary, which is the design's one real strength; the sample is a population in which everyone already selected into a religious university, which caps external validity hard.

Greater exposure to private schooling instead of public schooling was not associated with more or less political tolerance; greater exposure to home-schooling was associated with MORE political tolerance. Recorded here as the only direct test of the separatism hypothesis, and as evidence that the popular concern is not supported even in the population where it should be most visible.

High; parental political attitudes are transmitted both genetically and environmentally, and they select the schooling type.

Single institution, never replicated. Shakeel et al.'s 2024 civic-outcomes meta-analysis covers private schooling but not home-schooling specifically.