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Brian D. Ray and NHERI, part 1

Posted in Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged , on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Some weeks ago I had an interesting email exchange with Dr. Brian D. Ray who responded to me graciously but critically concerning several comments I have made about his organization in some of my blog posts.  Specifically, Dr. Ray objected to two things.  First, he objected to my association of his organization with HSLDA, maintaining [...]

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Zigler, Pfannenstiel, and Seitz on Parent Educators

Posted in Family life, Quantitative data, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged , , , , , , , on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This post reviews Edward Zigler, Judy C. Pfannenstiel, and Victoria Seitz, “The Parents as Teachers Program and School Success: A Replication and Extension” in Journal of Primary Prevention 29, no. 2 (March 2008): 103-120 [Available fulltext here].
Many government programs exist to try to help parents, especially low-income parents, better prepare their children for school.  Programs [...]

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Early on Reading to Children

Posted in Family life, tagged , , , , , on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post briefly reviews Sherry Early, “Don’t Tell the Children: Homeschoolers’ Best-Kept Secret” in Horn Book (Sept/Oct 2008) [Available here]
Early, a homeschooling mother of eight, former elementary school librarian, and blogger, here describes the culture of reading among homeschoolers, especially her own family. 

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Meighan on John Holt

Posted in History of Homeschooling, International Homeschooling, tagged , , , , , , on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post reviews Roland Meighan, John Holt (London: Continuum, 2007).
Roland Meighan, a British intellectual/activist and the driving force behind Educational Heretics Press, (whose website houses an archive of his articles), here provides a guide to the educational writings of John Holt, a leading American critic of public education in the 1960s, who in the late 1970s [...]

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Gaither on Eating Humble Pie

Posted in History of Homeschooling, research methodology, tagged , , , on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday I received an email from Dr. Robert Kunzman, a professor at Indiana University who has written widely on topics related to moral and religious education in public schools and is currently working on a book on homeschooling.  After saying many kind and flattering things about my book he gently alerted me to an error [...]

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Thiem on Homeschooling as Spatial Politics

Posted in History of Homeschooling, Politics of homeschooling, tagged , , , , , , , on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post reviews Claudia Hanson Thiem, “The Spatial Politics of Educational Privatization: Re-reading the U.S. Homeschooling Movement” in Gulson and Symes, eds., Spatial Theories of Education: Policy and Geography Matters (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 17-36.
Thiem, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here presents a complex argument for increased attention to geography when [...]

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Ray and Eagleson on Government Regulations and SAT Scores

Posted in Homeschool Law, Homeschooling and Higher Education, Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »

This post reviews Brian D. Ray and Bruce K. Eagleson, “State Regulation of Homeschooling and Homeschoolers’ SAT Scores” in Academic Leadership: The Online Journal 6, no. 3 (14 August 2008).  [Available fulltext here]
Ray, founder and president of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), and Eagleson, Chief of Emergency Medicine at a hospital in Lebanon, PA, [...]

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