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Kunzman on Regulating Homeschooling

Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This post reviews Robert Kunzman, “Understanding Homeschooling: A Better Approach to Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 311-330
Kunzman, well known on this blog as the author of the excellent study Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling, here engages explicitly the aspect of [...]

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Winstanley on Homeschooling Gifted Children

Posted in Parental motivation, Special Education, tagged , , , , , , , on November 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »

This post reviews Carrie Winstanley, “Too Cool for School? Gifted Children and Homeschooling” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 347-362
Winstanley, Principal Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University in London,  here argues that gifted children form a distinct group of homeschoolers that defy classification schemes usually employed by scholars to describe [...]

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Merry and Howell on How Family Intimacy is a Good Argument for Homeschooling

Posted in Parental motivation, Socialization, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This post is the first in a series reviewing the recent articles published in the November 2009 issue of Theory and Research in Education.  The article under review is Michael S. Merry and Charles Howell, “Can Intimacy Justify Home Education?”
Merry, professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam and author of an important [...]

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Special Homeschool Issue of THEORY AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATION

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2009 | 17 Comments »

It’s always a welcome development when a notable journal decides to devote an entire issue to homeschooling.  This has been done only a very few times.  Back in 2000 the prestigious Peabody Journal of Education devoted Volume 75, Issue 1/2 to homeschooling,

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Kunzman on HOMESCHOOL: AN AMERICAN HISTORY

Posted in History of Homeschooling, tagged , on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The cerebral evangelical bimonthly Books and Culture just published a nice review of my book by Rob Kunzman.  You can read it here.

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Theobald on Returning Rural Values to Education

Posted in History of Homeschooling, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).  [An article that summarizes many of the points made in the book is available here]
Theobald, Woods-Beals Chair of Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College and author of two other books on rural education and [...]

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