In my previous two posts (here and here) I reviewed the first three parts of Homeschooling (Current Controversies). In this post I’ll finish out part four and make some concluding comments about the anthology.
Part four addresses the question, “Should Homeschooled Children Have Access to Public School Resources?”
Archive for February, 2009
A new edition of HOMESCHOOLING (CURRENT CONTROVERSIES), part 1
Posted in Family life, Parental motivation, tagged African American homeschooling, BellaOnline.com, Catholic homeschooling, Christa Rosales, Christine Field, Chronicle of Higher Education, classical education, conservative Protestant homeschooling, Creationism, Evolution, First Things, homeschooling children with special needs, Jennifer James, Laredo Morning Times, Mark Field, Meg Grooms, Mothering Magazine, Nicole Vallone, religious motivation for homeschooling, Sally Thomas, Special Education, W.A. Pannapacker, William A. Pannapacker on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Back in June I reviewed the previous incarnation of this book in four blog posts (number 1, number 2, number 3, and number 4). There’s a lot of interesting stuff in those posts, so if you haven’t read them I recommend doing so.
Myra Immel is the editor this time around of Homeschooling (Current Controversies). The 2009 edition [...]
Gatto on the Evils of Public Education
Posted in research methodology, tagged Calvinism, childhood obesity, Dumbing Us Down, Home Education Magazine, HSLDA, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, Michael Farris, Pat Farenga, predestination, total depravity, Underground History of American Education on February 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This post reviews John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (New Society Publishers, 2009).
John Taylor Gatto is a legendary figure in the world of homeschooling. My bookon homeschool history describes how by the late 1980s secular and conservative Protestant homeschoolers increasingly became estranged. The large [...]
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