This post reviews Dan Lips and Evan Feinberg, “Homeschooling: A Growing Option in American Education” in Backgrounder 2122 (June 2008). [Available fulltext here]
Lips and Feinberg, both with the Heritage Foundation, here produce a synthetic overview of homeschooling for the Foundation’s publication Backgrounder. Most of what they describe will be very familiar to anyone who has [...]
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Lips and Feinberg on Homeschool Economics
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Brian Ray, Dan Lips, Economics of homeschooling, Evan Feinberg, Heritage Foundation, Lawrence Rudner, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) on August 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Furness on Homeschoolers and Libraries
Posted in Curriculum, tagged Adrienne Furness, Charlotte Mason, classical education, Libraries, unschooling on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Adrienne Furness, Helping Homeschoolers in the Library (Chicago: American Library Association, 2008).
Furness, a children’s librarian, here produces a book aimed at other librarians, informing them about homeschooling and suggesting ways librarians can better serve homeschooling patrons.
British Researchers on Reading to Children
Posted in Family life, International Homeschooling, Islamic Homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Ann Williams, bilingual education, Clare Kelly, Eve Gregory, literacy, reading to children, siblings on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Clare Kelly, Eve Gregory, and Ann Williams, “Home to School to Home: Syncretised Literacies in Lingustic Minority Communities” in Ofelia Garcia and Colin Baker, eds., Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader (Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2007).
This essay is one of several chapters in a comprehensive reader on bilingual education. The researchers compare and contrast [...]
Koonce on Transitioning from Home School to Public School
Posted in Parental motivation, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Jeffrey B. Koonce, public school and homeschool partnerships, transition to public schooling on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Jeffrey B. Koonce, “The Transitional Experience of Home-Schooled Students Entering Public Education: How Can Public Schools Better Serve the Home-Schooled Student’s Transition to Public Education?” (Ed.D. Diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007).
This is Koonce’s doctoral dissertation. He now works for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. His study examined the experiences [...]
Andrade on Hi-Tech Homeschooling
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, tagged Albert G. Andarade, Qualitative research, Technology in Homeschooling on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Albert G. Andrade, “An Exploratory Study of the Role of Technology in the Rise of Homeschooling” (Ph.D. Diss, Ohio University, 2008).
This is Andrade’s doctoral dissertation. After an excellent and thorough review of extant literature on homeschooling he asks what forces led to its explosive growth in the 1980s and 1990s. He has [...]
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