Posted in History of Homeschooling, International Homeschooling, tagged Casey Patrick Cochran, Growing Without Schooling, Homeschooling in Great Britain, John Holt, personalized learning, Roland Meighan, Susannah Sheffer on September 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Roland Meighan, John Holt (London: Continuum, 2007).
Roland Meighan, a British intellectual/activist and the driving force behind Educational Heretics Press, (whose website houses an archive of his articles), here provides a guide to the educational writings of John Holt, a leading American critic of public education in the 1960s, who in the late 1970s became the key public voice of the homeschooling movement for nearly a decade. (more…)
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Law, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged African American homeschooling, Casey Patrick Cochran, Diffusion Research, Georgia, Minorities and homeschooling, Race and homeschooling, Tal Levy on July 18, 2008| 5 Comments »
This post reviews Tal Levy, “Homeschooling and Racism” in Journal of Black Studies (November 2007): 1-19. (Available fulltext here).
Levy, a political science professor at Marygrove College in Detroit, here offers 13 hypothetical reasons why various states passed homeschool legislation and puts each hypothesis to the test to see if it really explains the expansion of homeschooling. (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. Get it here!
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