Review of Green and Hoover-Dempsey, “Why Do Parents Homeschool?”

Christa L. Green and Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, “Why Do Parents Homeschool? A Systematic Examination of Parental Involvement,” in Education and Urban Society 39, no. 2 (2007): 264-285.

Green, a graduate student, and Hoover-Dempsey, a professor at Vanderbilt University, produce here an extension of Green’s master’s thesis. 

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Part 4 of review of Williams, ed., AT ISSUE: HOMESCHOOLING

In this final entry I will finish out my review of the anthology AT ISSUE: HOMESCHOOLING, summarizing chapters 7-13 much more briefly than in previous entries. 

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Part 3 of review of Williams, ed., AT ISSUE: HOMESCHOOLING

In this third installment I will review chapters 5 and 6 of the anthology AT ISSUE: HOMESCHOOLING 

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Countdown: 5 days until release of HOMESCHOOL: AN AMERICAN HISTORY

Six years in the making, my book Homeschool: An American Historywill become available June 24.  Here’s the publisher’s blurb:

“This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going.”

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Part 2 of review of Williams, ed., AT ISSUE: HOMESCHOOLING

In my last post I reviewed the first two entries in this anthology.  Today I will review chapters 3 and 4. 

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Review of Heidi Williams, ed., AT ISSUE: HOMESCHOOLING, part 1

This 2007 release by Thomson Gale is a convenient anthology of articles all previously published elsewhere covering a range of topics and points of view on homeschooling.  The aim of the collection is to provide a sort of point/counterpoint on the topics covered.  In my next few posts I will provide brief summaries of and commentary on the articles included.  Today I will talk about the first two. 

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More on Gary Wyatt’s FAMILY TIES

Two points that I did not stress in my original comments on Wyatt’s Family Ties: Relationships, Socialization, and Home Schooling are especially worthy of note.  First,

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