Posted in Homeschool Law, Parental motivation, tagged common good, Current Issues in Education, diversity, Filmerian, First Amendment Center, Jacqueline Pfeffer, John Locke, Kenneth V. Anthony, Polity, Robert Filmer, Susie Burroughs, Vanderbilt University, Wisconsin v. Yoder on July 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Kenneth V. Anthony, “Declarations of Independence: Home School Families’ Perspectives on Education, the Common Good, and Diversity” in Current Issues in Education 16, no. 1 (February 2013): 1-15. [Abstract here]
Summary: Anthony, Assistant Professor of Education at Mississippi University for Women, here continues a line of research on which he’s published before about the motivations of conservative Christian homeschooling parents who choose a classical approach.
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Posted in Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged and Cultural Rights, Catherine J. Ross, HSLDA, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Kimberly Yuracko, Martha Albert Fineman, Michael Farris, Nativism, Peabody Journal of Education, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Roman Catholics, San Antonio v. Rodriguez, Social, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights on July 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Michael Farris, “Tolerance and Liberty: Answering the Academic Left’s Challenge to Homeschooling Freedom” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 393-406.
Summary: Farris, the United States’ most influential homeschooling leader for the past 25 years, here summarizes and then rebuts arguments made by some academics and lawyers who seek to increase regulation of homeschooling. (more…)
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, tagged Blane Despres, British Columbia, FoRSE Matrix, Peabody Journal of Education, Ripple Deep Consulting on July 8, 2014| 1 Comment »
Record: Blane Després, “A Question of Resistance to Home Education and the Culture of School-Based Education” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 365-377.
Summary: Després, President of Ripple Deep Consulting in British Columbia, here tries to apply his systemic thinking model called the FoRSE Matrix to the question of public education’s resistance to home education. (more…)
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