Posted in Curriculum, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Arizona, Donna M. Johnson, dual enrollment, Florida Virtual School, Iowa, Peabody Journal of Education, Tempe, Tim Tebow, Vida Homeschool Enrichment center on May 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Donna M. Johnson, “Confrontation and Cooperation: The Complicated Relationship between Homeschoolers and Public Schools” in Peabody Journal of Education 88 (2013): 298-308. [Preview here]
Summary: Johnson, an education professor at Dakota Wesleyan University, here summarizes a wide range of issues and initiatives connecting homeschooling and public schools.
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Posted in Curriculum, Parental motivation, tagged Iowa, Tina Marie Jorgenson, University of Iowa on July 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Tina Marie Jorgenson, “Homeschooling in Iowa: An Investigation of Curricular Choices Made by Homeschooling Parents” (Ph.D. Diss.: University of Iowa, 2011). [Available here]
This doctoral dissertation uses data compiled from Form A of the Competent Private Instruction Report, which the state of Iowa requires all independently homeschooling parents to fill out. From this data she was able to get a pretty good sense of what kind of Iowans homeschool, what curriculum they use, and why they do what they do.
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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