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 state track championship for her teeny school Rochelle High. (more…)
Posted in International Homeschooling, tagged Catholics, Christianity in South Korea, Deok-Hee Seo, education fever, Ethnography, Homeschooling in South Korea, Protestants, South Korea on September 14, 2009| 2 Comments »
This post reviews Deok-Hee Seo, “The Profitable Adventure of Threatened Middle-Class Families: An Ethnographic Study on Homeschooling in South Korea” in Asia Pacific Education Review 10, no. 3 (September 2009): 409-422
Seo, a professor at Chosun University in South Korea, here looks at the homeschooling experiences of four middle-class Korean families and situates these experiences in the context of Korean social and educational expectations. (more…)
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, California Achievement Test, Home School Legal Defense Association, Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics, HSLDA, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), NHERI, Stanford Achievement Test on September 7, 2009| 4 Comments »
This post briefly reviews preliminary releases of the new study conducted by Brian Ray for HSLDA called “Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics.” The full study is scheduled for release in November 2009.
While the full report has not yet been published, HSLDA has already posted a press release describing its scope and celebrating its finding that homeschoolers score on average 36-37 percentage points higher than public schooled children on a wide range of standardized tests. (more…)
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