Author Archives: Milton Gaither

New NCES Homeschooling Data!

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Amber Noel, Patrick Stark, and Jeremy Redford, Parent and Family Involvement in Education, from the National Household Education Survey Program of 2012, (NCES 2013-028) (U.S. Department of Education: Washington, D.C., 2013)[Available Here] Summary: Every four years the National Center … Continue reading →

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DOES HOMESCHOOLING “WORK”: A Critique of Advocacy Research

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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HOSTILITY OR INDIFFERENCE? Why There’s not More Homeschooling Research

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Charles Howell, “Hostility or Indifference? The Marginalization of Homeschooling in the Educational Profession” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 355-364. Summary: Howell, a philosopher of education and Dean of Beeghly College of Education at Youngstown State … Continue reading →

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WHY WE NEED HOMESCHOOLING: A Critique of Democratic Education

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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BENEFICIAL OUTCOMES BUT EDUCATORS DO NOT PROMOTE IT: A Rebuttal of Homeschooling Critiques

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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REFLECTIONS ON A DECADE OF CHANGES: Higher Education and Homeschooling

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION: Public Schools and Homeschooling

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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HOMESCHOOLING AND SOCIALIZATION REVISITED

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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RESISTING THE STATUS QUO: Black Homeschoolers in Atlanta and Washington DC

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Cheryl Fields-Smith and Monica Wells Kisura, “Resisting the Status Quo: The Narratives of Black Homeschoolers in Metro-Atlanta and Metro-DC” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 265-283. Summary:  Fields-Smith of the University of Georgia, whose pathbreaking work … Continue reading →

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New Homeschooling-themed Issue of the PEABODY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Milton Gaither

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 … Continue reading →

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