This post reviews Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
Kunzman [see his wonderful homeschooling research website here], Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington and author of many works on religion, ethics, and education, here gives us one of the most important [...]
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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 [...]
Furness on Homeschoolers and Libraries
Posted in Curriculum, tagged Adrienne Furness, Charlotte Mason, classical education, Libraries, unschooling on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Adrienne Furness, Helping Homeschoolers in the Library (Chicago: American Library Association, 2008).
Furness, a children’s librarian, here produces a book aimed at other librarians, informing them about homeschooling and suggesting ways librarians can better serve homeschooling patrons.
Leithart on Classical Homeschooling
Posted in Classics, Curriculum, tagged Association of Classical Christian Schools, Charles Evans, Classical Christian Education, Classical Christian Home Educators, classical education, Classics, Dorothy L. Sayers, Douglas Wilson, Ken Myers, Logos School, Lost Tools of Learning, Mars Hill Audio Journal, Peter J. Leithart, Robert Littlejohn, Susan Wise Bauer on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Peter J. Leithart, “The New Classical Schooling” in Intercollegiate Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3-12. (Available fulltext here)
Leithart, a professor at New Saint Andrews University in Moscow, Idaho, is well-placed to chronicle the emerging classical Christian Education movement. He has long been associated with The Logos school and Trinity Reformed Church [...]
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