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Marzluf on Homeschoolers in College Writing Courses

Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Parental motivation, tagged , , , , , , on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This post reviews Philip Marzluf, “Writing Home-Schooled Students into the Academy” in Composition Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 49-66
Marzluf, professor and director of the writing program at Kansas State University, here pens a thoughtful reflection on the challenges that arise in composition courses when conservative Christian homeschoolers enroll in them. 

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Saunders on Homeschoolers Going to College

Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Quantitative data, Socialization, tagged , , , , , , on September 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »

This post reviews Mary K. Saunders, “Previously Homeschooled College Freshmen: Their First Year Experiences and Persistence Rates” in Journal of College Student Retention 11, no. 1 (2009-2010): 77-100.
Saunders here uses results from a survey of 261 college freshmen at Wheaton College to argue that first year students who previously homeschooled tend to report positive social [...]

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Kunzman on Christian Homeschoolers, Part 2

Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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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Millman on Homeschooling in New Jersey and College Admission

Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschooling and Higher Education, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This post reviews Gregory and Martine Millman, Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey(New York: Penguin, 2008).
Gregory Millman, economics journalist and author of several books on monetary policy, and his wife Martine Millman here produce a beautiful book that is part memoir, part how-to guide, and part research review on select homeschooling topics.  For this review I will [...]

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Sorey and Duggan on Homeschoolers at Community Colleges

Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This post reviews Kellie Sorey and Molly H. Duggan, “Homeschoolers Entering Community Colleges: Perceptions of Admission Officers” in Journal of College Admission (Summer 2008): 22-28
Sorey, the Registrar at Tidewater Community College in Virginia, and Duggan, Assistant Professor of Community College Leadership at Old Dominion, here report the results of a survey of admissions officers in [...]

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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, [...]

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Haan and Cruickshank on Homeschoolers in College

Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, tagged , , , , , , , on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post reviews Perry Haan and Cam Cruickshank, “Marketing Colleges to Home-Schooled Students” in Journal of Marketing for Higher Education 16, no. 2 (2006): 25-43.
Haan and Cruickshank, both affiliated with Tiffin University in Ohio, here orient college administrators to the homeschooling movement and make a case for increased recruitment from its ranks as a viable strategy [...]

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