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State Homeschooling Enrollment Data 2013
On my old site I occasionally posted all the available data on enrollment compiled by the various states in the USA. This data is not the best for several reasons. First, many states do not collect data on enrollments at … Continue reading
Posted in Research Methodology
Tagged Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, State data, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia
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LATIN IN THE HOMESCHOOLING COMMUNITY: Results of a Large-Scale Survey
Record: Christine Hahn, “Latin in the Homeschooling Community,” in Teaching Classical Languages 4, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 26-51. [Available Here] Hahn is a homeschooling mother and owner of Latin for Homeschoolers, an online tutoring service. Summary: To date there has … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum
Tagged Cambridge University Press, Christine Hahn, Classical, Classical Academic Press, Classical Christian, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Sayers, Kenneth V. Anthony, Latin, Memoria Press, Peter Leithart, Quantitative data, Susie Burroughs, Teaching Classical Languages, The Lost Tools of Learning, trivium, Unschooling
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DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS: A Peek Inside Four Classical Homeschools
Record: Kenneth V. Anthony and Susie Burroughs, “Day to Day Operations of Home School Families: Selecting from a Menu of Educational Choices to meet Students’ Individual Instructional Needs.” in International Education Studies, 5, no. 1 (February 2012): 1-17. [Available fulltext … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Pedagogy
Tagged classical education, homogeneity sample, International Education Studies, Kenneth V. Anthony, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Outcomes-Based Education, Portfolio Assessment, Progressive Education, Susie Burroughs, Tim Tebow Bill
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THE NEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLING: A Summary and Appraisal
Record: Peter J. Leithart, “The New Classical Schooling” in Intercollegiate Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3-12. (Available fulltext here) Leithart, a professor at New Saint Andrews University in Moscow, Idaho, is well-placed to chronicle the emerging classical Christian Education … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum
Tagged A Beka Book, Alpha Omega, Association of Classical Christian Schools, Benjamin Rush, Bob Jones Complete, Charles Evans, Classical Christian Education, Classical Christian Home Educators, classical education, Classics, Dialectic, Dorothy L. Sayers, Douglas Wilson, Focus on the Family, Grammar, James Dobson, John Dewey, Ken Myers, Logic, Logos School, Lost Tools of Learning, Mars Hill Audio Journal, New Saint Andrews University, Peter J. Leithart, Quadrivium, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rhetoric, Robert Littlejohn, Society for Classical Learning, Susan Wise Bauer, The Lost Tools of Learning, The National Review, trivium
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INFORMAL HOME EDUCATION: A Philosophical Rationale for Liberated Pedagogy
Record: Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison, “Informal Home Education: Philosophical Aspirations Put Into Practice” in Studies in Philosophy and Education 32(2): 141-154 (2013) [Available Here] British researchers Thomas and Pattison are frequent collaborators, most significantly on the 2008 revision of … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum
Tagged Alan Thomas, Autonomous Learning, Harriet Pattison, Informal Home Education, J. C. Blokhuis, John Dewey, Natural Learning, Osmotic, Randall Curren, Unschooling
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HOMESCHOOLING IN AMERICA: A Book-Length Survey of Homeschooling Research
Record: Joseph Murphy, Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2012). Murphy, Associate Dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University and author of many, many books and articles on a wide range of … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy, Socialization
Tagged Cardus Education Survey, Jennifer Lois, Joseph Murphy, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University
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QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of a Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 3
This post is the final installment of my treatment of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. In my first post I summarized the book’s content. In my second post I offered a few critiques and generalizations. Here I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Albert Mohler, Amish, Christian Right, Doug Phillips, Gary North, Geoffrey Botkin, God's Harvard, Half-Way Covenant, Hanna Rosin, Harvard College, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Michael Farris, Mormons, Old Order Mennonite, Patriarchy, Patrick Henry College, Protestantism, Puritans, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Reconstructionism, Religious Right, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist, Unitarianism, Yale Divinity School
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QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of A Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 2
This post continues my review of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. In part 1 I summarized Joyce’s book. Here I will offer three criticisms and then try to generalize a bit from her data. In part 3 I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Autonomy, birthrate, democracy, Family Wage, feminism, Kathryn Joyce, megachurches, Patriarchy, Pippa Norris, Quiverfull, Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, Sexual Revolution, The Atlantic
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