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Category Archives: Curriculum
NCES HOMESCHOOLING DATA: 2012 Complete Report
Record: Jeremy Redford, Danielle Battle, Stacey Bielick, and Sarah Grady, Homeschooling in the United States: 2012, (NCES 2016-096) (U.S. Department of Education: Washington, D.C., 2016) [Available Here] Introduction: Every four or five years, the National Household Education Survey developed by the National Center … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy, Public Schools, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Technology
Tagged Danielle Battle, Jeremy Redford, National Center for Education Statistics, National Household Education Survey, NCES, Sarah Grady, Stacey Bielick
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UNIVERSITY-BASED HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM: Physical Education
Record: David A. Wachob, “Starting a University-based Physical Educational Program for Homeschooled Children.” Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 86, No. 3 (2016), 34-41. [Abstract] Summary: Wachob is an assistant professor of health and physical education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania who started a … Continue reading
Posted in College/Postsecondary, Curriculum, Health, Pedagogy, Socialization
Tagged David Wachob, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Physical Education
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HARO 2014 INSTALLMENT THREE: Academics and Extracurriculars
Record: Coalition for Responsible Home Education, “A Complex Picture: Results of the 2014 Survey of Adult Alumni of the Modern Christian Homeschool Movement, Installment Three” Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out (1 April 2015). [Available Here] Summary: This post reviews the third installment of HARO’s survey of … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Achievement, College/Postsecondary, Curriculum, Socialization
Tagged A Beka, Alpha Omega, Apologia, AWANA, Belfield, Biologos, Bob Jones Complete, Charles Morris, Charlotte Mason, Coalition for Responsible Home Education, college prep, driver's education, Frost, Genesis, HARO, home economics, Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out, job training, McGuffey Readers, Physical Education, Qaqish, Ray, Saxon, sex education, Sonlight, Wartes
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THE CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF UNSCHOOLING: Questionnaire Results
Record: Peter Gray and Gina Riley, “The Challenges and Benefits of Unschooling, According to 232 Families Who Have Chosen that Route” in Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning 7, no. 14 (2013): 1-27. [Article] Summary: Gray is a professor of psychology at Boston … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Pedagogy
Tagged Boston College, Gina Riley, Hunter College, Journal of Unschooling adn Alternative Learning, Mercy College, Peter Gray, Unschooling
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CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN: A Case Study of One Mother-Teacher
Record: Melissa Sherfinski, “Contextualizing the Tools of a Classical and Christian Homeschooling Mother-Teacher” in Curriculum Inquiry 4, no. 2 (March 2014): 169-203. Summary: Sherfinski, a professor in West Virginia University’s College of Education and Human Services, has published widely on … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Gender, Parental Motivation, Pedagogy, Religion
Tagged Amazon.com, Aristotle, Chris Perrin, Classical, Classical Academic Press, Classical Christian, Curriculum Inquiry, Duggar, Jessie Wise, Melissa Sherfinski, Peter Leithart, Susan Wise Bauer, Teaching Classical Languages, West Virginia University
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CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION: Public Schools and Homeschooling
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
Posted in Curriculum, Legal, Policy/Regulation, Public Schools, Technology
Tagged Arizona, Donna M. Johnson, Dual Enrollment, Florida Virtual School, Iowa, Peabody Journal of Education, Tempe, Tim Tebow Bill, Tim Tebow Law, Vida Homeschool Enrichment Center
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RESISTING THE STATUS QUO: Black Homeschoolers in Atlanta and Washington DC
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
Posted in Curriculum, Parental Motivation, Race/Ethnicity, Special Needs
Tagged Afrocentric, Baltimore Sun, bell hooks, Cheryl Fields-Smith, Gary Wyatt, homeplace, Monica Wells Kisura, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, Peabody Journal of Education, Robert Reich, Secession of the Successful, Trinity Washington University, University of Georgia, Washington, Washington D.C.
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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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