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.
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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…)
Posted in Academic Achievement, Politics of homeschooling, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Christopher Lubienski, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, National Home Education Research Institute, NHERI, Peabody Journal of Education, T Jameson Brewer, Tiffany Puckett on June 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Christopher Lubienski, Tiffany Puckett, and T. Jameson Brewer, “Does Homeschooling ‘Work’? A Critique of the Empirical Claims and Agenda of Advocacy Organizations” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 378-392.
Summary:
Lubienski is well known as one of the most prominent critics of unregulated homeschooling. Here he and his colleagues do not challenge the rights of families to educate their children at home. They limit their critique to the research and underlying agendas of homeschooling advocacy organizations. (more…)
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschooling and Higher Education, Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Baylor University, Christian Smith, Democratic Education, Peabody Journal of Education, Perry Glanzer, Perry L. Glanzer, Warren Nord on June 6, 2014| 1 Comment »
Record: Perry L. Glanzer, “Saving Democratic Education from Itself: Why We Need Homeschooling” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 342-354.
Summary: Glanzer, an education professor at Baylor University, here argues that homeschooling provides a helpful corrective to reductive definitions of education fostered by some advocates of public schooling.
His fundamental point is that many public school advocates have raised the concept of education for political citizenship to such a high level that it has become something like an established religion. (more…)
Posted in Academic Achievement, Homeschooling and Higher Education, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, National Home Education Research Institute, NHERI, Peabody Journal of Education, Rousas Rushdoony on May 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Brian D. Ray, “Homeschooling Associated with Beneficial Learner and Societal Outcomes but Educators Do Not Promote It” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 324-341.
Summary:
Ray is without question the most influential researcher in homeschooling given his many decades of work as the head of the high profile National Home Education Research Institute, a research/advocacy organization that has produced a steady stream of reports demonstrating the academic and social benefits of homeschooling, most of them funded by the Home School Legal Defense Association. Ray has also for decades worked the homeschooling lecture circuit and has appeared as a pro-homeschooling expert witness in dozens of court cases. In this article he moves beyond his usual empirical arguments to make more philosophical arguments in favor of homeschooling and against its critics. (more…)
Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, tagged Colorado State University, Gene W. Gloeckner, Georgia College and State University, Journal of College Admissions, Marc Snyder, Michael F. Cogan, Paul Jones, Peabody Journal of Education, Rob Kunzman on May 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Gene W. Gloeckner and Paul Jones, “Reflections on a Decade of Changes in Homeschooling and the Homeschooled into Higher Education,” Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 309-323.
Summary: Gloeckner, an education professor at Colorado State University, and Jones, interim president of Georgia College and State University, here revisit the two questions they first addressed in two widely cited 2004 pieces about homeschooling and higher education, both published in the special issue dedicated to that theme by the Journal of College Admission. The questions concerned 1. the success of homeschooled students in college when compared with students from conventional schools, and 2. the perception of admissions officers about homeschooled applicants. (more…)
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. (more…)
Posted in Homeschooling and Higher Education, Parental motivation, research methodology, Socialization, tagged Cardus Education Survey, Home School Researcher, Jennifer Lois, Mitchell Stevens, Other Education, Peabody Journal of Education, Richard G. Medlin, Rob Kunzman, Social Skills Rating System on May 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Richard G. Medlin, “Homeschooling and the Question of Socialization Revisited,” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 284-297.
Summary:
Medlin, a psychology professor at Stetson University, here continues a line of inquiry he began in one of the landmark articles of the original 2000 Peabody Journal homeschooling special issue. Since that article he has published several pieces in the journal Home School Researcher, all of which find very positive results for homeschoolers’ social and academic development. In this piece his goal is to review research on homeschooler socialization that has appeared since his 2000 article.
Posted in research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, ICHER, NHERI, Peabody Journal of Education on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Every so often an academic journal decides to devote an entire issue to the topic of homeschooling. Here is a list of such themed issues:
International Journal of Elementary Education 3, no. 1 (October 2010).
Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009).
Journal of College Admission 185 (Fall 2004).
Evaluation and Research in Education 17, no. 2-3 (2003).
Peabody Journal of Education 75, no. 1-2 (2000).
Education and Urban Society 21, no. 1 (November 1988).
The Peabody Journal of Education, whose 2000 special issue was a landmark in the history of homeschooling research, released another special issue in 2013, edited, as was the 2000 issue, by Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI). (more…)
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