Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Homeschool Law’ Category

Schwartz on Homeschooling Laws

Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, tagged , , , , , on May 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »

This post briefly reviews Brian D. Schwartz, The Law of Homeschooling (Dayton: Education Law Assn., 2008) [ordering info here]
Let me begin by saying that I have not read this book.  When I was writing the legal chapter in my own book on homeschooling I looked at the older edition of this text (published in 1994) [...]

Read Full Post »

Howard Ahmanson’s Astonishing Political Switch

Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged , , , , , , , on March 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This blog is usually not really bloggy, in the sense that I don’t normally comment on other blogs posting about this or that passing tidbit.  But today I’ll break from my normal modus operandi for a truly remarkable tidbit.
Yesterday I read on Rod Dreher’s “Crunchycon” blog that Howard Ahmanson, the famous Orange County Billionaire whose [...]

Read Full Post »

Osborne, Jr. on Homeschoolers with Special Needs

Posted in Homeschool Law, Special Education, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged , , , , on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This post briefly reviews Allan G. Osborne, Jr., “IDEA and Alternative Education Choices: Legal Issues” in School Business Affairs 74, no. 10 (November 2008): 24-26.
Osborne, Jr., an authority on special education law, here explains the rights accorded homeschooled children by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Read Full Post »

New Edition of HOMESCHOOLING (CURRENT CONTROVERSIES), part 2

Posted in Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This post follows my previous post reviewing the new anthology Homeschooling (Current Controversies).  Here I will review parts II and III of the book.
Part II addresses the question “is homeschooling a good option?” with three yea voices and one nay. 

Read Full Post »

Varnham on Homeschooling in Australia and New Zealand

Posted in Homeschool Law, International Homeschooling, tagged , , on October 14, 2008 | 19 Comments »

This post reviews Sally Varnham, “My Home, My School, My Island: Home Education in Australia and New Zealand” in Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice 2 (2008): 1-30. [Available fulltext here]
Varnham, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, specializes in education law.  Here she [...]

Read Full Post »

Ray and Eagleson on Government Regulations and SAT Scores

Posted in Homeschool Law, Homeschooling and Higher Education, Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »

This post reviews Brian D. Ray and Bruce K. Eagleson, “State Regulation of Homeschooling and Homeschoolers’ SAT Scores” in Academic Leadership: The Online Journal 6, no. 3 (14 August 2008).  [Available fulltext here]
Ray, founder and president of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), and Eagleson, Chief of Emergency Medicine at a hospital in Lebanon, PA, [...]

Read Full Post »

Levy on Homeschooling and Racism

Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Law, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged , , , , , , on July 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This post reviews Tal Levy, “Homeschooling and Racism” in Journal of Black Studies (November 2007): 1-19. (Available fulltext here).
Levy, a political science professor at Marygrove College in Detroit, here offers 13 hypothetical reasons why various states passed homeschool legislation and puts each hypothesis to the test to see if it really explains the expansion of homeschooling.  [...]

Read Full Post »

Cooper and Sureau on Homeschooling Politics

Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged , , , , , on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post reviews Bruce S. Cooper and John Sureau, “The Politics of Homeschooling: New Developments, New Challenges” in Educational Policy 21, no. 1 (Jan and Mar 2007): 110-131 (available online here)
Cooper, editor of the recent anthology Homeschooling In Full View, and his collaborator Sureau here summarize legal, legislative, and public-image developments in the homeschooling movement.  [...]

Read Full Post »

Reich Responds to Glanzer

Posted in Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged , , , on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In a previous post I reviewed Perry Glanzer’s robust critique of Rob Reich’s argument for increased government regulation of homeschooling.  This post reviews Reich’s response to Glanzer titled “On Regulating Homeschooling: A Reply to Glanzer” published in Educational Theory 58, no. 1 (2008): 17-23. 

Read Full Post »

Khalili and Caplan on Homeschoolers and Vaccinations

Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged , , , , on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This post reviews Donya Khalili and Arthur Caplan, “Off the Grid: Vaccinations Among Homeschooled Children” in Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 35, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 471-477.
Khalili, a University of Pennsylvania law student, and Caplan, director of Penn’s Center for Bioethics, argue here that the large number of unvaccinated homeschooled children in the United [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »