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Monthly Archives: October 2012
PRIVATE OPPRESSION: The FLDS and Homeschooling Regulation
Record: Teri Dobbins Baxter, “Private Oppression: How Laws that Protect Privacy Can Lead to Oppression” in Kansas Law Review 58, no. 2 (January 2010): 415-471 [Available for purchase here] Summary: Baxter, Professor of Law at St. Louis University, here seeks … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Policy/Regulation
Tagged due process, FLDS, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Kansas Law Review, Oregon v. Smith, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, Right to Privacy, St. Louis University, Strict Scrutiny, Teri Dobbins Baxter, Texas
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ARE COMMUNITY COLLEGES ‘HOME-SCHOOL FRIENDLY?’: Website Customization for Homeschoolers
Record: Molly H. Duggan, “Are Community Colleges ‘Home-School Friendly?’: An Exploration of Community College Web Sites as an Indicator of ‘Friendliness’” in Community College Journal of Research and Practice 34: 55-63 (2010). Summary: Duggan, whose earlier work on community colleges … Continue reading
Posted in College/Postsecondary
Tagged Community College Journal of Research and Practice, community colleges, Darren Jones, GED, HSLDA, Molly H. Duggan, websites, Youtube
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FORGING A FUNDAMENTALIST ‘ONE BEST SYSTEM’: The History of ACE, ABeka, and Bob Jones Complete
Record: Adam Laats, “Forging a Fundamentalist ‘One Best System’: Struggles over Curriculum and Educational Philosophy for Christian Day Schools, 1970-1989″ in History of Education Quarterly 50, no 1 (February 2010): 55-83. [Read the first page here] Summary: Laats, a professor … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, History, Pedagogy
Tagged A Beka, Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, Adam Laats, Arlin Horton, Beka Horton, Binghamton University, BJU, Bloom's Taxonomy, Bob Jones Complete, Bob Jones University, History of Education Quarterly, John Dewey, Max Rafferty, new math, original sin, Pensacola Christian Schools, phonics, progressivism, Rudolph Flesch, sex education, Sputnik, whole language
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UNDERSTANDING HOMESCHOOLING REGULATIONS: An Minimalist Argument for Evaluating Basic Skills
Record: Robert Kunzman, “Understanding Homeschooling: A Better Approach to Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 311-330 Summary: Kunzman, professor of education at Indiana University and author of Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Policy/Regulation
Tagged Indiana University, Iowa test of Basic Skills, Little House on the Prairie, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Robert Kunzman, Theory and Research in Education, Wisconsin v. Yoder, Write these Laws on your Children
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TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL?: Gifted Children and Homeschooling
Record: Carrie Winstanley, “Too Cool for School? Gifted Children and Homeschooling” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 347-362 Summary: Winstanley, Principal Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University in London, here argues that gifted children form … Continue reading
Posted in International, Special Needs
Tagged Carrie Winstanley, England, Gifted Education, Roehampton University, Theory and Research in Education
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CAN INTIMACY JUSTIFY HOME EDUCATION?: A Speculative Argument
Record: Michael S. Merry and Charles Howell, “Can Intimacy Justify Home Education?” in Theory and Research in Education, November 2009. Summary: Merry, professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam and author of an important recent book on … Continue reading
Posted in Parental Motivation, Public Schools
Tagged attentive parenting, Brian Ray, Charles Howell, Gary Wyatt, Home School Researcher, Intimacy, Michael Merry, Theory and Research in Education
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WRITING HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS INTO THE ACADEMY–Christian Homeschoolers in Freshman Composition
Record: Philip Marzluf, “Writing Home-Schooled Students into the Academy” in Composition Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 49-66 Summary: Marzluf, professor and director of the writing program at Kansas State University, here pens a thoughtful reflection on the challenges that … Continue reading
Posted in College/Postsecondary, Religion
Tagged Composition Studies, Philip Marzluf
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BLACK PARENTS’ DECISIONS TO HOME SCHOOL: Four Key Themes
Record: Cheryl Fields-Smith and Meca Williams, “Motivations, Sacrifices, and Challenges: Black Parents’ Decisions to Home School” in Urban Review 41 (2009): 369-389 Summary: Fields-Smith, a professor at the University of Georgia, and Williams, at Georgia Southern, here offer an … Continue reading
Posted in Parental Motivation, Race/Ethnicity
Tagged Afrocentric, Afrocentrism, Cheryl Fields-Smith, community-nomination process, liberation theology, Meca Williams, Urban Review
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