This post briefly reviews Rose M. Marsh, Alison A. Carr-Chellman, and Beth R. Stockman, “Selecting Silicon: Why Parents Choose Cybercharter Schools” in TechTrends 53, no. 4 (July 2009): 32-36 [available here]
Carr-Chellman and two of her doctoral students here report the results of interviews they conducted with seven cybercharter parents to find out why conservative homeschoolers [...]
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Why Parents Choose Cybercharter Schools
Posted in Parental motivation, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Alison A. Carr-Chellman, Beth R. Stockman, cybercharters, HSLDA, K12, PAVCS, Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School, Rose M. Marsh, TechTrends, William Bennett on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cavanaugh reviews the literature on Cyber Charter Effectiveness
Posted in Quantitative data, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged Cathy Cavanaugh, cybercharters, Tech Trends on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Cathy Cavanaugh, “Effectiveness of Cyber Charters: A Review of Research on Learnings” in Tech Trends 53, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 28-31 [available fulltext here]
In another article taken from the special issue of Tech Trends devoted to cyber schools, Cavanaugh, Associate Professor of educational technology at the University of Florida at Gainesville, [...]
Cambre on Religion in Cyber Charters
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Belinda M. Cambre, Charter Schools, Cleveland Voucher Program, cybercharters, Lemon Test, Supreme Court, Vouchers, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Belinda M. Cambre, “Tearing Down the Walls: Cyber Charter Schools and the Public Endorsement of Religion” in Tech Trends 53, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 61-64 [Available fulltext here]
Cambre, an education professor at the University of New Orleans, here summarizes the legal background of the public education and religion issue and then [...]
Veronica Chater’s WAITING FOR THE APOCALYPSE
Posted in Family life, tagged Catholic, Fatima, Great Chastisement, Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull, Robert Kunzman, Vatican 2, Vatican II, Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post briefly reviews Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family (New York: Norton, 2009).
Chater here pens an amazing memoir of her childhood years as one of (eventually) 11 children in a super conservative Catholic family. There’s no actual homeschooling in the book (Veronica’s mother threatens her kids with homeschooling [...]
Kunzman on Christian Homeschoolers, Part 2
Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Annette Lareau, Generation Joshua, GenJ, HSLDA, libertarianism, Michael Farris, Ned Ryun, Robert Kunzman, Theocracy, Unequal Childhoods on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post continues my review of Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling(Boston: Beacon, 2009).
In part one I summarized the book’s contents and offered a few tepid critiques. Here I’d like to draw out a few generalizations from Kunzman’s rich data about Christian homeschoolers.
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