Some readers may have noticed that I recently added a new link to my blogroll. Rob Kunzman, Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University in Bloomington, has a really great resource for anyone interested in homeschooling research. Kunzman is the real deal. His extensive research has long focused on religion and morality in public schools, and [...]
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Rob Kunzman’s Homeschooling Research Site
Posted in research methodology, tagged Indiana University, Rob Kunzman, Robert Kunzman on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Breaking News! New NCES Homeschool Data!
Posted in Parental motivation, Quantitative data, tagged John Holt, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES on December 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Just in time for Christmas, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has finally released its latest figures on homeschooling - the gift at the top of any homeschool researcher’s list! This is a big deal. If you’ve read much homeschooling literature you’ve seen NCES’ 2003 data used over and over, because it’s the best we’ve got for [...]
Susan Juby on Homeschooled Adolescence
Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged Alice MacLeod, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian literature, children's literature, CTV, Deschooling, Ivan Illich, John Holt, Miss Smithers, Susan Juby, unschooling, young adult fiction on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post continues my exploration of recent children’s lit employing homeschooling themes with a review of the young adult fiction trilogy of Susan Juby, whose comedic heroine is Alice MacLeod, a sarcastic and disaffected teen who was homeschooled until age fifteen. The books, with their American publication date, are as follows:
Alice, I Think(HarperTempest, 2003)
Miss Smithers(2004)
Alice MacLeod, Realist [...]
Clark on Virtual Schools
Posted in public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Colorado Online Learning, cybercharters, digital divide, E-Rate Program, Eduventures, Florida Virtual School (FLVS), National Educational Technology Plan, National School Boards Association, No Child Left Behind, Thomas Clark, virtual charter schools, Virtual High School (VHS) on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Thomas Clark, “Virtual Schooling and Basic Education” in Bramble and Panda, eds., Economics of Distance and Online Learning: Theory, Practice and Research(New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 52-71.
Clark, president of TA Consulting, which helps cybercharters develop successful long-term strategies, and author of several articles on virtual schools, here presents a broad overview of virtual schools, [...]
Homeschooling Enrollment Data Trends
Posted in Quantitative data, tagged Connecticut, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, State data on homeschooling, Vermont, Wisconsin on December 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
This post will eventually put together data on number of homeschooling children from every State that has it, providing links to the sources. The figures here given no doubt underreport the number of children being homeschooled, but even so they provide a good measure of enrollment trends over time. In the future I will repost this until it [...]
Millman on Homeschooling in New Jersey and College Admission
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschooling and Higher Education, tagged Catholic homeschooling, College admission of homeschoolers, Deborah Gordon, Emergence, Friendship Learning Center, Gregory J. Millman, Jane Jacobs, John H. Holland, John Holt, Lawrence Rudner, Martine P. Millman, Nancy Plent, New Jersey, Richard G. Medlin, Robert Putnam, Unschoolers Network on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post reviews Gregory and Martine Millman, Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey(New York: Penguin, 2008).
Gregory Millman, economics journalist and author of several books on monetary policy, and his wife Martine Millman here produce a beautiful book that is part memoir, part how-to guide, and part research review on select homeschooling topics. For this review I will [...]
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