Posted in Homeschool Law, tagged Connections Academy, Hayley Jones, K12, Mary Sue Backus, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, virtual charter schools on March 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Record: Mary Sue Backus and Hayley Jones, “Solution or Siren Song? The Lure of Virtual Charter Schools” in The Oklahoma Bar Journal (2015). [Available Here]
Summary: Backus is a professor and Jones is a former student from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Interestingly, both are former educators. In this article they look at the legal code and effectiveness of virtual charter schools in Oklahoma.
Posted in Homeschooling and Health, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Kristy K. Bradley, Laurence Burnsed, Matthew G. Johnson, Oklahoma, Pediatrics, Rachel Clinton, Susan Mendus, Tejpratap Tiwari, vaccinations on November 6, 2014| 1 Comment »
Record: Matthew G. Johnson, Kristy K. Bradley, Susan Mendus, Laurence Burnsed, Rachel Clinton, and Tejpratap Tiwari, “Vaccine-Preventable Disease Among Homeschooled Children: Two Cases of Tetanus in Oklahoma” in Pediatrics 132 , no. 6 (December 2013): e1686-e1689. Available Here.
Summary: Johnson and colleagues begin by noting that rates of vaccination among homeschoolers are unknown because in many states they are not subject to the same school-entry vaccination requirements as are other schoolchildren. The authors then explain that tetanus has become extremely rare in the United States thanks to vaccinations. In the entire United States there were only 37 reported cases of tetanus in 2012. In Oklahoma there were only two. Both were homeschoolers, 
one of whom had never received a vaccination and the other of whom had not received the 10 year booster shot. (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Capital Research Center, Charles Murray, Cornerstone Tutorial Center, Idaho, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, Kansas, KIPP, Logos School, Montessori, Moscow, Oklahoma, Oregon Connections Academy, Philip Brand, Raymond and Dorothy Moore, Sam Young, Susan Strelow, Tulsa, unschooling, Wichita on September 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Philip Brand, The Neighbor’s Kid: A Cross-Country Journey in Search of What Education Means to Americans
Brand, a young staffer at the Capital Research Center, a conservative non-profit best known for its opposition to labor unions and environmentalists, here recounts his experiences during the 2008-2009 school year when he and his brother took a road trip that led them across the entire United States four times. In route he visited dozens of different kinds of schools, including several homeschools. (more…)
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