Contreras on Home-Based Extension Education

This post reviews Dawn A. Contreras, “Breaking the Bonds of Isolation: Can Home-Based Education Increase Social Support Levels?” in Journal of Extension 46, no. 2 (April 2008): 13-20.
Contreras, Program Leader at Michigan State University Extension’s Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, here presents the results of a study of the effectiveness of a parent-education program [...]

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Price cut on my book at Amazon.com

When it was released a few days ago it cost $29.95.  But this morning I checked and my book Homeschool: An American History is now $21.56 at Amazon.  Just wanted to pass that on.

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Anderson on Nomadic Homeschooling

This post reviews Helen Marie Anderson, “Learning (and Leaving) the Comforts of Home: A Radical Pedagogy of Homeplace,” in Philosophy of Education Yearbook (2007): 103-111.
Anderson here offers a two-pronged argument.  First, she makes the interesting claim that “where we learn becomes part of what we learn.”  Second, given Anderson’s conviction that traditional families and homes [...]

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Neil MacFarquhar on Muslim Homeschooling

A recent New York Times piece  by Neil MacFarquhar titled “Resolute or Fearful, Many Muslims Turn to Homeschooling,” while not exactly educational research, does offer some hard-to-come-by data on homeschooling among Muslims.  It also raises important questions for the broader homeschooling movement.  Until more substantive research on homeschooling among American Muslims is produced, we will have to [...]

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Glanzer responds to Reich

This post reviews Perry L. Glanzer, “Rethinking the Boundaries and Burdens of Parental Authority over Education: A Response to Rob Reich’s Case Study of Homeschooling” in Educational Theory 58, no. 1 (2008): 1-16
Glanzer, an education professor at Baylor University best known for his work on moral education in U.S. colleges and in Russia, here offers [...]

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Isenberg on what research on homeschooling tells us

This post reviews Eric J. Isenberg, “What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?” in Peabody Journal of Education 82 (2007): 387-409.
Isenberg, affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., here tries to synthesize all of the best research on several topics related to homeschooling.  After a brief historical orientation he begins by bemoaning the paucity of available data [...]

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My book is out!

After six plus years of work, my book Homeschool: An American Historyis officially released today. 

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Yuracko on Regulating Homeschooling

This post reviews Kimberly A. Yuracko, “Education off the Grid: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling” in California Law Review 96, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): 123-184.
Yuracko, a law professor at Northwestern University whose work deals primarily with antidiscrimination law, here makes the case that state statutes and the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution require that [...]

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Countdown: HOMESCHOOL: AN AMERICAN HISTORY debuts tomorrow!

My bookon the history of homeschooling in the United States will be officially released tomorrow.  Here, for those interested, is a list of the chapter titles:  

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Plecnik on Homeschoolers’ access to public school programs

This post reviews John T. Plecnik, “Equal Access to Public Education: An Examination of the State Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Nonpublic Students to Participate in Public School Programs on a Part-Time Basis in North Carolina and Across the Nation,” published in the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Fall 2007 (13: no. [...]

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