One of the most interesting recent developments in homeschooling is the expansion of the practice to populations that historically have not been associated with it. Given the dearth of representative, randomized sampling studies of homeschoolers, it has been very hard to quantify growth of this sort. Many of the most oft-cited studies of homeschoolers, such as those [...]
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Homeschool Diversity Roundup
Posted in Parental motivation, tagged au pair, Brian D. Ray, Catholic homeschooling, Home Schooling in Alaska, HSLDA, Jewish homeschooling, New York City, Saturday Night Live, school resistance, secular homeschooling, vaccinations, Weekend Update on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorey and Duggan on Homeschoolers at Community Colleges
Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, tagged Community Colleges, Homeschooling and Higher Education, HSLDA, Kellie Sorey, Molly H. Duggan on October 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This post reviews Kellie Sorey and Molly H. Duggan, “Homeschoolers Entering Community Colleges: Perceptions of Admission Officers” in Journal of College Admission (Summer 2008): 22-28
Sorey, the Registrar at Tidewater Community College in Virginia, and Duggan, Assistant Professor of Community College Leadership at Old Dominion, here report the results of a survey of admissions officers in [...]
Varnham on Homeschooling in Australia and New Zealand
Posted in Homeschool Law, International Homeschooling, tagged Homeschooling in Australia, Homeschooling in New Zealand, Sally Varnham on October 14, 2008 | 19 Comments »
This post reviews Sally Varnham, “My Home, My School, My Island: Home Education in Australia and New Zealand” in Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice 2 (2008): 1-30. [Available fulltext here]
Varnham, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, specializes in education law. Here she [...]
Call for Papers for special issue on Homeschooling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theory and Research in Education on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been asked to pass on the following announcement. The way the questions it poses are worded makes me a bit wary, for the editors seem to assume an a priori antagonism between parental and public interests that to me feels dated. But the call is also open ended enough to allow for multiple perspectives on its topics:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Theory [...]
Brian D. Ray and NHERI, part 2
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, HSLDA, NHERI on October 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my previous post I described how a series of email exchanges with Brian Ray motivated me to devote more systematic attention to his work than I had done previously. Dr. Ray, in an unfailingly courteous manner, criticized previous assertions I had made in this blog about the limited scientific reach of his studies and [...]
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