This post reviews Carol Klein and Mary Poplin, “Families Home Schooling in a Virtual Charter School System” in Marriage and Family Review 43, nos. 3&4 (2008): 369-395.
Klein, a Teacher on Special Assignment in Anaheim, CA, and Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University, here offer the results of a survey Klein conducted of parents whose [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Klein and Poplin on Virtual Charter Schools
Posted in Parental motivation, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged California Virtual Academies, Carol Klein, CAVA, cybercharters, Mary Poplin, Mary S. Poplin, virtual charter schools on January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Jones on Religious Schools and Homeschools
Posted in Curriculum, History of Homeschooling, tagged A Beka Book, Benjamin Rush, Bob Jones Complete, Catholic schooling, Chris Klicka, Gregg Harris, Home School Legal Defense Association, Horace Mann, HSLDA, Islamic schooling, Jewish schooling, Michael Apple, Michael Farris, Noah Webster, Protestant schooling, Rob Reich, Steven L. Jones on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Steven L. Jones, Religious Schooling in America: Private Education and Public Life (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008).
Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology at Grove City College, here offers a fascinating book about the history of private religious education in America. It’s not a straightforward chronological history but rather a thematic look, showing in chapter [...]
Uecker on Homeschooling and Religious Commitment
Posted in Family life, Quantitative data, Sociology, tagged Catholic schooling, Christian Smith, Jeremy E. Uecker, Melinda Lundquist Denton, National Survey of Youth and Religion, NSYR, Peter Berger, private schooling, Protestant schooling, sacred canopy, sacred umbrella, Soul Searching on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Jeremy E. Uecker, “Alternative Schooling Strategies and the Religious Lives of American Adolescents” in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47, no. 4 (December 2008): 563-584 [Abstract available here].
Uecker, a Ph.D. candidate at the U of Texas at Austin and author of many interesting articles on young adult religion and sexuality, [...]
Malcolm Gladwell’s OUTLIERS and Homeschooling, part I
Posted in Family life, tagged Annette Lareau, David Brooks, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, The Organization Kid, Unequal Childhoods on January 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success(New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008 ) aims to debunk the common mythology of self-made greatness, arguing instead that behind every great man or woman is a host of factors we often don’t think about that made his or her success possible. The book is not directly about homeschooling [...]
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