This post briefly reviews preliminary releases of the new study conducted by Brian Ray for HSLDA called “Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics.” The full study is scheduled for release in November 2009.
While the full report has not yet been published, HSLDA has already posted a press release describing its scope and celebrating [...]
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New Ray/HSLDA Study on Homeschooler Achievement
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, California Achievement Test, Home School Legal Defense Association, Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics, HSLDA, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), NHERI, Stanford Achievement Test on September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Kunzman on Christian Homeschoolers, Part 2
Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Annette Lareau, Generation Joshua, GenJ, HSLDA, libertarianism, Michael Farris, Ned Ryun, Robert Kunzman, Theocracy, Unequal Childhoods 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.
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 [...]
Howard Ahmanson’s Astonishing Political Switch
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged HSLDA, Chris Klicka, Home School Legal Defense Association, Rutherford Institute, John W. Whitehead, Howard Ahmanson, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony 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 [...]
My article “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream” now Online
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Education Next, Milton Gaither on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My article “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream” from this month’s Education Next can be accessed here. If you want the complete version with footnotes, click here. In it I describe the growing diversity of homeschoolers and the increasingly heterogeneous forms homeschooling is taking, including collaborative efforts between families and public school districts.
Brian D. Ray and NHERI, part 2
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, HSLDA, NHERI on October 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my previous post I described how a series of email exchanges with Brian Ray motivated me to devote more systematic attention to his work than I had done previously. Dr. Ray, in an unfailingly courteous manner, criticized previous assertions I had made in this blog about the limited scientific reach of his studies and [...]
Thiem on Homeschooling as Spatial Politics
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Mitchell Stevens, HSLDA, Claudia Hanson Thiem, Spatial Politics, Geography, Vernon L. Bates, Colleen McDannell, Jason C. Bivins on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Claudia Hanson Thiem, “The Spatial Politics of Educational Privatization: Re-reading the U.S. Homeschooling Movement” in Gulson and Symes, eds., Spatial Theories of Education: Policy and Geography Matters (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 17-36.
Thiem, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here presents a complex argument for increased attention to geography when [...]
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