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 | 61 Comments »
Kunzman on Regulating Homeschooling
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Government regulation of homeschooling, Homeschool Regulation, Homeschooling Regulation, National Education Association, NEA, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Robert Kunzman, Theory and Research in Education, Wisconsin v. Yoder on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This post reviews Robert Kunzman, “Understanding Homeschooling: A Better Approach to Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 311-330
Kunzman, well known on this blog as the author of the excellent study Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling, here engages explicitly the aspect of [...]
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 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 Lawrence Rudner, African American homeschooling, NCES, Bob Jones Complete, Gene V. Glass, Gene Glass, Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel, birth rates, school choice, privatization, Crimson Wife, Bob Jones University, Minority homeschooling rates, Black homeschooling, Hispanic homeschooling, Karl Marx 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 Chris Klicka, Home School Legal Defense Association, Howard Ahmanson, HSLDA, John W. Whitehead, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Rutherford Institute 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.
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