Continuing the theme of last week’s post, here follows a round-up of more recent treatments of homeschooling in the mainstream press.
First, here is a human-interest piece from the New Yorker about homeschooled child actors.
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Current Events Round-Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atheism, Basic Life Seminar, Bill Gothard, Bonnie Richardson, Discipleship Training School, horrorcore, James Dobson, Joseph Stalin, Matthew Murray, Max Blumenthal, National Association of Evangelicals, New Life Community Church, Oral Roberts University, Rochelle High, Sports Illustrated, Ted Haggard, The Nation, Wynonna Judd, Youth With a Mission, YWAM on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t have a piece of research to review for this week so instead I’ll briefly comment on a few homeschooling-related stories that have recently made the news or appeared in trade magazines.
First, there’s a great story in this week’s Sports Illustrated (28 September 2009) about Bonnie Richardson, who single-handedly won the class 1A Texas [...]
Call for Papers for special issue on Homeschooling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theory and Research in Education on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been asked to pass on the following announcement. The way the questions it poses are worded makes me a bit wary, for the editors seem to assume an a priori antagonism between parental and public interests that to me feels dated. But the call is also open ended enough to allow for multiple perspectives on its topics:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Theory [...]
Future Status of this Blog
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a note for readers of this blog: Next week our family is going away on vacation and after that it will be time to get ready for the upcoming fall semester at my college, so I will not have the kind of time I’ve had over the summer to compose these blog entries. I’ll [...]
Online chat about my book
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dana Hanley, Homeschool: an American History, principleddiscovery.com on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dana Hanley of principleddiscovery.com has an online radio show which can be accessed here. Today at 2:30 I’ll be talking with her about my book Homeschool: An American History. The show is archived, so you can catch it any time.
Price cut on my book at Amazon.com
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When it was released a few days ago it cost $29.95. But this morning I checked and my book Homeschool: An American History is now $21.56 at Amazon. Just wanted to pass that on.
My book is out!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
After six plus years of work, my book Homeschool: An American Historyis officially released today.
Countdown: HOMESCHOOL: AN AMERICAN HISTORY debuts tomorrow!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Milton Gaither, History of Homeschooling on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My bookon the history of homeschooling in the United States will be officially released tomorrow. Here, for those interested, is a list of the chapter titles:
Countdown: 5 days until release of HOMESCHOOL: AN AMERICAN HISTORY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged History of Homeschooling, Milton Gaither on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Six years in the making, my book Homeschool: An American Historywill become available June 24. Here’s the publisher’s blurb:
“This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been [...]
My review of Hartman, Education and the Cold War
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Hartman, cold war, public schools on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Intellectual History blog has just web-published my review of Andrew Hartman’s Education and the Cold War. Click here for the entire review.
