Posted in Minority Homeschooling, Parental motivation, tagged African American homeschooling, Afrocentric, Atlanta, Black American, Black Christianity, Black homeschooling, Cheryl Fields-Smith, Christian America, community-nomination process, Conservative Right, Georgia Southern University, Liberation Theology, Meca Williams, University of Georgia on October 19, 2009| 2 Comments »
This post reviews Cheryl Fields-Smith and Meca Williams, “Motivations, Sacrifices, and Challenges: Black Parents’ Decisions to Home School” in Urban Review 41 (2009): 369-389
Fields-Smith, a professor at the University of Georgia, and Williams, at Georgia Southern, here offer an important contribution to the literature on parental motivation for homeschooling. This article is the first to look carefully at African American homeschooling parents to determine their motivations. (more…)
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