This post reviews Steven L. Jones, Religious Schooling in America: Private Education and Public Life
Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology at Grove City College, here offers a fascinating book about the history of private religious education in America. It’s not a straightforward chronological history but rather a thematic look, showing in chapter after chapter how common themes have animated the Catholic school movement of the 19th century, the Jewish day school movement of the mid 20th century, and the Protestant day school and homeschool movements of the more recent past. (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. 
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Homeschooling Research Notes 