Is Home Schooling working? Or better put, why is home schooling working for so many families today?

Many cite the control over the curriculum.

Many cite values education, while others site the basic and systemic failures of the public education system, from dropout rates and crime, to deteriorating facilities and lack of basic instructional supplies.

Parents today are home schooling their kids in records numbers.

I welcome your input on why, whether it works, and any studies that prove it.