Home-based programs provide opportunities at a level far beyond what a traditional public school program can offer. To stem enrollment losses to homeschooling, or simply to help families interested in home-based option, public schools are enrolling children and sending them home, where they follow the school's curriculum under their parents' supervision. In this article, the author discusses how these home-based programs work and describes how they are implemented in different sites. This paper concludes that enrolled home study has potential to increase academic achievement, cut costs, and spur competition-driven improvements, but no research base helps us assess these outcomes, leaving two main reasons to support home-based enrollment in public schools: experimentation and parental participation. Both are desirable goals. Pioneering new ways of delivering education can be exciting. It challenges teachers to be creative and could produce new models for teaching and learning. A second worthy goal is developing new models for parental involvement.