This post reviews Robin L. West, “The Harms of Homeschooling” in Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 29, no. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2009): 7-11 [Available here]
West, a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, here provides perhaps the most blistering attack on homeschooling to be published in a reputable source in many years.
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West on the Harms of Homeschooling
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Constitution, ethical servility, fundamentalist Protestants, Georgetown University Law Center, home visits, HSLDA, immunizations, Kathryn Joyce, Michigan, Perry Glanzer, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, physical abuse, public health, Quiverfull, Rob Kunzman, Rob Reich, Robin L. West, USA Today, Write These Laws on your Children on December 21, 2009 | 50 Comments »
Kunzman on HOMESCHOOL: AN AMERICAN HISTORY
Posted in History of Homeschooling, tagged Books and Culture, Robert Kunzman 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.
Chris Klicka, Rest in Peace
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, tagged Chris Klicka, Dorothy Moore, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, John Holt, Multiple Sclerosis, Raymond Moore on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday homeschooling activist lawyer Chris Klicka died after a 15 year battle with multiple sclerosis. Klicka was hired by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) in 1985 before it had really gotten off of the ground, and he helped grow it into the powerhouse advocacy organization that it is today. In my book on [...]
Olsen on the Constitutionality of Homeschooling
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, tagged Brigham Young University, California Court of Appeals, Chad Olsen, In re Rachel L., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Meyer v. Nebraska, People v. Darrah and Black, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Rob Reich, Shawn Peters, Wisconsin v. Yoder on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Chad Olsen, “Constitutionality of Home Education: How the Supreme Court and American History Endorse Parental Choice” in Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 2 (2009): 399-423
Olsen, a law student at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, here provides a fascinatingly detailed, though flawed, analysis of the famous In re Rachel L. [...]
Joyce on Patriarchal Homeschooling, Part 1
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Motherhood, Parental motivation, tagged Above Rubies, Allan Carlson, Bill Gothard, Birthrates, Botkin Sisters, Carmon Friedrich, Charles Provan, Constitution Party, Dawn Irons, Debi Pearl, Doug Phillips, Focus on the Family, Francis Schaeffer, Howard Phillips, James Dobson, Jan Hess, Jerry Falwell, Jonathan Falwell, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Martha Peace, Mary Pride, Michael Pearl, Moral Majority, Nancy Campbell, No Greater Joy, Patriarchy, Philip Lancaster, Phillip Longman, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Rachel Scott, Rick Hess, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist Convention on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This post reviews Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
Joyce, a freelance journalist based in New York City, here pens an important book on one of the most dynamic subcultures within the homeschooling world: “quiverfull” families where father is patriarchal lord, mother is submissive breeder of as many children as [...]
Joan Aiken as homeschooler
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged children's literature, Horn Book, Joan Aiken, memorization, reading to children, Wolves of Willoughby Chase on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post briefly reviews Lizza Aiken, “Growing Up with Joan Aiken: A Daughter’s View” in Horn Book Magazine (May/June 2009): 253-258.
Joan Aiken (1924-2004!) was a major figure in 20th century children’s literature. She wrote nearly 100 books, the most popular of which are probably the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. In this article her daughter Lizza describes Joan’s [...]
Glass on Homeschooling and Privatization
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, tagged African American homeschooling, and Steel, birth rates, Black homeschooling, Bob Jones Complete, Bob Jones University, Crimson Wife, Gene Glass, Gene V. Glass, Germs, Guns, Hispanic homeschooling, Jared Diamond, Karl Marx, Lawrence Rudner, Minority homeschooling rates, NCES, privatization, school choice on May 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This post reviews Gene V. Glass, Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips: The Fate Of Public Education In America (Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2008).
Glass, a professor of education at Arizona State University and author of numerous studies related to empirical research in education, here provides a sweeping, almost epic account of the broad economic and social [...]
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