This post briefly reviews Lisa Rivero’s The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It’s Right for Your Family(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008).
Rivero, author of two previous books on home-based education, Gifted Education Comes Home : A Case for Self-Directed Homeschoolingand Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Familieshere provides the latest in a long [...]
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Lisa Rivero on Homeschooling Trends and Special Ed
Posted in Special Education, tagged ADD, Asperger's Syndrome, Dyslexia, homeschooling children with special needs, HSLDA, John Holt, Lisa Rivero, Raymond Moore, Special Education, Wisconsin on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My article “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream” now Online
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Education Next, Milton Gaither on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My article “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream” from this month’s Education Next can be accessed here. If you want the complete version with footnotes, click here. In it I describe the growing diversity of homeschoolers and the increasingly heterogeneous forms homeschooling is taking, including collaborative efforts between families and public school districts.
David Gilmour on Movies as Homeschool Curriculum
Posted in Family life, Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Carey Grant, David Gilmour, Homeschooling in Literature and Film, Ingrid Bergman, Pauline Kael on November 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This post reviews David Gilmour’s The Film Club: A Memoir(New York: Twelve, 2008).
Gilmour, a Canadian novelist, movie critic, and media odd-jobber, here offers a memoir describing the experience of allowing his deadbeat 15 year-old son to drop out of school and live at his home rent-free on condition that father and son watch three movies [...]
Gordon Korman and Charles Webb on Hippie Homeschoolers
Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged Charles Webb, children's literature, Gordon Korman, Homeschooling in Literature and Film, The Graduate on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post is the second in a series noting recent works of literature or film that employ homeschooling as a plot device. In this post I discuss popular children’s author Gordon Korman’s 2007 book Schooledand the 2007 book by Charles Webb, famous author of the ’60s classic The Graduate, titled Home School.
Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl and Homeschooling
Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged children's literature, Jerry Spinelli, loneliness, peer pressure, Stargirl on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As homeschooling has become increasingly common and familiar, we are seeing more and more works of popular fiction, movies, and so on with homeschooled characters. This is especially true for children’s fiction. In this post and many more to come I will discuss some of these cultural products, beginning here with Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl(Knopf, 2000) [...]
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