At Last! All State Homeschool Data in One Place!

Several months ago, just prior to the new NCES data that was released, I posted enrollment data from six states that suggested a levelling off of homeschool growth.
Then, only a few weeks later, NCES came out with data that suggested continued dramatic growth in homeschooling!
Now, finally, I’ve got all of the available state data in [...]

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Greenfield’s Theory of Social Change and Homeschooling

This post reviews Patricia M. Greenfield, “Linking Social Change and Developmental Change: Shifting Pathways of Human Development” in Developmental Psychology 45, no. 2 (March 2009): 401-418
Greenfield is a luminary in the field of psychocultural research, the comparative study of psychology across geographic and ethnic boundaries.  She is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA and Associate [...]

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Park on Home Literacy Environments

This post briefly reviews Hyunjoon Park, “Home Literacy Environments and Children’s Reading Performance: A Comparative Study of 25 Countries” in Educational Research and Evaluation 14, no. 6 (Winter 2008): 489-505
Park, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, here gives the results of an ambitious study of 25 countries aiming to determine the degree [...]

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Lois on Deviant Homeschooling Moms

This post reviews Jennifer Lois, “Emotionally Layered Accounts: Homeschoolers’ Justifications for Maternal Deviance” in Deviant Behavior 30, no. 2 (February 2009): 201-234
Lois, a sociology professor at Western Washington University, here investigates how homeschooling mothers deal with criticisms of their actions. 

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