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STATE REGULATION OF HOMESCHOOLING AND SAT SCORES: Is There a Relationship?
Record: Brian D. Ray and Bruce K. Eagleson, “State Regulation of Homeschooling and Homeschoolers’ SAT Scores” in Academic Leadership: The Online Journal 6, no. 3 (14 August 2008). [Available fulltext here] Summary: Ray, founder and president of the National Home Education Research … Continue reading
RETHINKING THE BOUNDARIES: Perry Glanzer Defends Homeschooling against Rob Reich’s Critique
Record: Perry L. Glanzer, “Rethinking the Boundaries and Burdens of Parental Authority over Education: A Response to Rob Reich’s Case Study of Homeschooling” in Educational Theory 58, no. 1 (2008): 1-16 Summary: Glanzer, an education professor at Baylor University best … Continue reading
Posted in Policy/Regulation
Tagged Autonomy, Educational Theory, Perry Glazner, Rob Reich
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HOMESCHOOLING AND RACISM
Record: Tal Levy, “Homeschooling and Racism” in Journal of Black Studies (November 2007): 1-19. (Available fulltext here). Summary: Levy calls his approach “Diffusion Research,” a methodology that looks at how a reform spreads and tries to ascertain why certain locations adopt … Continue reading
Posted in History, Legal, Race/Ethnicity
Tagged Casey Patrick Cochran, Georgia, Journal of Black Studies, Julian Bond, Tal Levy
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STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON HOME EDUCATION TRANSITIONS WITH FORMAL SCHOOLING
Record: Glenda Jackson, “Home Education Transitions with Formal Schooling: Student Perspectives” in Issues in Educational Research 17 (2007) (Available fulltext here) Summary: Jackson, director of the Australian Home Education Advisory Service, here conducts three case studies of homeschooled students transitioning … Continue reading
Posted in International, Public Schools, Socialization
Tagged Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, Australia, Australian Home Education Advisory Service, Glenda Jackson
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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING?
Record: Eric J. Isenberg, “What Have We Learned About Homeschooling?” in Peabody Journal of Education 82 (2007): 387-409. Summary: Isenberg, affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., here tries to synthesize all of the best research on several topics related to … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy
Tagged Eric J. Isenberg, National Household Education Survey, NHES, Peabody Journal of Education
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EDUCATION OFF THE GRID: A Law Professor Advocates for Increasing Homeschooling Regulations
Record: Kimberly A. Yuracko, “Education off the Grid: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling” in California Law Review 96, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): 123-184. Summary: Yuracko, a law professor at Northwestern University here makes the case that state statutes and the Equal … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Policy/Regulation
Tagged gender equity, Kimberly Yuracko, minimum education, So Much More, Vision Forum
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EQUAL ACCESS: a Lawyer argues for Full Homeschooler Access to Public Education Resources
Record: John T. Plecnik, “Equal Access to Public Education: An Examination of the State Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Nonpublic Students to Participate in Public School Programs on a Part-Time Basis in North Carolina and Across the Nation,” published in … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Public Schools
Tagged John T. Plecnik, North Carolina
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FAMILY TIES: Inside Homeschooling with a Sociologist
Record Gary Wyatt, Family Ties: Relationships, Socialization, and Homeschooling (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007). Summary Wyatt offers here a short book summarizing the results of twelve years as a participant observer in the homeschooling world. He makes several … Continue reading