Monthly Archives: April 2018

FAST AND CURIOUS: Correspondence Programs as Home Education

Record: Robert L. Hampel, Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). Summary: Hampel, a historian of education at the University of Delaware, here releases the fruit of many years of study of … Continue reading

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A Case for Homeschooling

Record: Darren A. Jones, “A Case for Home Schooling” in in Robert A. Fox and Nina K. Buchanan, eds., The Wiley Handbook of School Choice (Malden, MA: 2017), pp. 344-361. Summary: Jones, a staff attorney with HSLDA, former homeschooler, and homeschooling father of four, … Continue reading

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Parental Rights and Children’s Interests

Record: Martha Albertson Fineman, “Home Schooling: Putting Parental Rights Over Children’s Best Interest” in Robert A. Fox and Nina K. Buchanan, eds., The Wiley Handbook of School Choice (Malden, MA: 2017), pp. 362-375. Summary: Fineman is one of the most important living … Continue reading

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WHAT MAKES A SOCIAL ENCOUNTER MEANINGFUL: Home Schooling and Emotional Socialization

Record: Oz Guterman and Ari Neuman, “What Makes a Social Encounter Meaningful: the Impact of Social Encounters of Homeschooled Children on Emotional and Behavioral Problems,” in Education and Urban Society 48, no. 8 (2017): 778-792. [Abstract Here]   Summary: Guterman and Neuman … Continue reading

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