Posted in Family life, Parental motivation, tagged Autonomy, birthrate, democracy, Family Wage, feminism, Kathryn Joyce, megachurches, Patriarchy, Pippa Norris, Quiverfull, Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, Sexual Revolution, The Atlantic on June 29, 2009| 1 Comment »
This post continues my review of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
In my last post I summarized Joyce’s book. Here I will offer three criticisms and then try to generalize a bit from her data. In my next post I’ll offer some predictions for the future of the Patriarchy movement. First for the critique: (more…)
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Motherhood, Parental motivation, tagged Above Rubies, Allan Carlson, Bill Gothard, Birthrates, Botkin Sisters, Carmon Friedrich, Charles Provan, Constitution Party, Dawn Irons, Debi Pearl, Doug Phillips, Focus on the Family, Francis Schaeffer, Howard Phillips, James Dobson, Jan Hess, Jerry Falwell, Jonathan Falwell, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Martha Peace, Mary Pride, Michael Pearl, Moral Majority, Nancy Campbell, No Greater Joy, Patriarchy, Philip Lancaster, Phillip Longman, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Rachel Scott, Rick Hess, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist Convention on June 22, 2009| 4 Comments »
This post reviews Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Joyce, a freelance journalist based in New York City, here pens an important book on one of the most dynamic subcultures within the homeschooling world: “quiverfull” families where father is patriarchal lord, mother is submissive breeder of as many children as God provides, sons are trained to be arrows used in battle against secularism, and daughters are given a sex-specific home education to prepare them to be obedient wives and dutiful mothers. (more…)
Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged Alice MacLed, bildungsroman, David Almond, Every Soul a Star, Gordon Korman, Homeschool Liberation League, Ida B, Jerry Spinelli, Katherine Hannigan, Newberry Award, Schooled, Skellig, Stargirl, Stephanie Tolan, Surviving the Applewhites, Susan Juby, Wendy Mass on June 15, 2009| 9 Comments »
This post summarizes what I’ve learned about homeschooling in mainstream children’s literature, looking at some books I haven’t reviewed already to make a few points about the genre.
I first got interested in depictions of homeschoolers in mainstream children’s literature when I came across David Almond’s excellent 1998 book Skellig
Posted in Family life, public school and homeschool partnerships, Sociology, 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
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 to transform Harlem. The book is an engaging blend of first person reportage of Canada’s efforts among the urban poor with research reviews of some of the most significant scholarship on urban poverty, child-rearing, and education. In this review I’ll briefly summarize Canada’s approach in Harlem and then focus on what this book has to say about the importance of home life for a child’s educational success. (more…)
Posted in Parental motivation, Quantitative data, tagged National Center for Education Statistics, National Household Education Survey, NCES on June 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A couple of months ago I noted with great excitement and not a little perplexity the release of new NCES data on homeschooling numbers. Well, now NCES has released its 2009 “Condition of Education” report, and indicator 6 (pp. 14-15) gives us the full NCES data on homeschooling. Read it here. A few of the highlights: (more…)
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