Monthly Archives: May 2019

HOMESCHOOL BACKGROUND: Homeschoolers at Patrick Henry College

Record: Daniel L. Bennett, Elyssa Edwards, and Courtney Ngai, “Homeschool Background, Time Use and Academic Performance at a Private Religious College” in Educational Studies 45, no. 3 (2019), pp. 305-325. [abstract here] Summary: Bennett, an economics professor at Baylor‘s Libertarian-leaning Baugh … Continue reading

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Reaction to Dwyer and Peters, HOMESCHOOLING

In a previous post I summarized the new book by Shawn F. Peters and James G. Dwyer, Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice (University of Chicago Press, 2019).  In this post I will make some comments about it.

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A New Scholarly Book on Homeschooling

Record:  James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters, Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice (University of Chicago Press, 2019). It has been several years now since we’ve had a rigorous scholarly book on homeschooling.  This new book by Peters … Continue reading

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