This post reviews Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
Kunzman [see his wonderful homeschooling research website here], Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington and author of many works on religion, ethics, and education, here gives us one of the most important [...]
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Tough on Replicating Middle Class Homes for the Poor
Posted in Family life, Sociology, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Annette Lareau, Baby College, Charles Murray, Christopher Jencks, Coleman Report, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Equality of Educational Opportunity, Geoffrey Canada, Harlem, Harlem Children's Zone, Harlem Gems, James S. Coleman, Losing Ground, Martha Farah, Matthew Effect, Moynihan Report, Paul Tough, Promise Academy, Richard Rothstein, The Bell Curve, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, Whatever it Takes, William Julius Wilson on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Paul Tough, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
Tough, an editor at the New York Times Magazine and widely published journalist, here pens a fascinating book chronicling the reform efforts of Geoffrey Canada, an African American visionary who has been working for many years [...]
Uecker on Homeschooling and Religious Commitment
Posted in Family life, Quantitative data, Sociology, tagged Catholic schooling, Christian Smith, Jeremy E. Uecker, Melinda Lundquist Denton, National Survey of Youth and Religion, NSYR, Peter Berger, private schooling, Protestant schooling, sacred canopy, sacred umbrella, Soul Searching on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Jeremy E. Uecker, “Alternative Schooling Strategies and the Religious Lives of American Adolescents” in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47, no. 4 (December 2008): 563-584 [Abstract available here].
Uecker, a Ph.D. candidate at the U of Texas at Austin and author of many interesting articles on young adult religion and sexuality, [...]
Part 2 of Gilbert on Motherhood
Posted in Family life, Motherhood, Quantitative data, Sociology, tagged Betty Friedan, burnout, Capitalism, day care, Feminine Mystique, feminism, Motherhood, Neil Gilbert, welfare on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews part two of Neil Gilbert, A Mother’s Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
In the book’s first section Gilbert described the long-term trend among American women toward having fewer children and investing more of their time in paid labor. In the second section [...]
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