Tag Archives: HSLDA

A CHILD’S RIGHT TO ATTEND PUBLIC SCHOOL: A Legal Perspective

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Robert Lyon

Record: Carmen Green, “Educational Empowerment: A Child’s Right to Attend Public School” in The Georgetown Law Journal, 103, (2015): 1090-1133. [Available Here] Summary: Carmen Green is a student at Georgetown Law. In this article she explores the issues of abuse and neglect among the … Continue reading →

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HOMESCHOOLING IN SOUTH AFRICA: Implications for other African Nations

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Milton Gaither

Record: Michael Olalekan Olatunji, “Contemporary Homeschooling in the Republic of South Africa: Some Lessons for Other African Nations” in Middle Eastern and African Journal of Educational Research 9 (2014): 4-16. [Available Here] Summary: Olatunji, whose affiliation is listed as the … Continue reading →

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HOME BASED EDUCATION IN NORTH CAROLINA: A Master’s Thesis

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Chelsey B. Watts, “Home Based Education in North Carolina: A Case Study of Policy, Coordination, and Social Acceptance” in Master’s Degree Studies in International and Comparative Education 17 (April, 2014).  Available here. Summary: Watts’ thesis was the result of … Continue reading →

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HOME SCHOOLING: A CQ Researcher Report

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Milton Gaither

Record: Marcia Clemmitt, “Home Schooling: Do Parents Give their Children A Good Education?” CQ Researcher 24, no. 10 (7 March 2014), pp. 217-240. [Available Here] Summary: The CQ Researcher has long been an influential publication, especially among politicians and others … Continue reading →

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DOES HOMESCHOOLING “WORK”: A Critique of Advocacy Research

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Christopher Lubienski, Tiffany Puckett, and T. Jameson Brewer, “Does Homeschooling ‘Work’? A Critique of the Empirical Claims and Agenda of Advocacy Organizations” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 378-392. Summary: Lubienski is well known as one of … Continue reading →

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BENEFICIAL OUTCOMES BUT EDUCATORS DO NOT PROMOTE IT: A Rebuttal of Homeschooling Critiques

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Brian D. Ray, “Homeschooling Associated with Beneficial Learner and Societal Outcomes but Educators Do Not Promote It” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 324-341. Summary: Ray is without question the most influential researcher in homeschooling given … Continue reading →

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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Christian Homeschooling in America, Part 2

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Milton Gaither

This post continues my review of Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling(Boston: Beacon, 2009). In part one I summarized the book’s contents and offered a few tepid critiques.  Here I’d like … Continue reading →

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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Christian Homeschooling in America, Part 1

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Milton Gaither

Record: Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009). Kunzman, Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington and author of many works on religion, ethics, and education, here … Continue reading →

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Summaries of Two Recent European Home Education Conferences

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Milton Gaither

In November of 2012 two important conferences, one in Berlin, Germany and the other in Madrid, Spain, were held.  Both were concerned primarily with fostering a political climate of openness to home education in European countries.

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A PROFILE OF HOMESCHOOLING: Why do South Dakota Parents Homeschool?

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Milton Gaither

Record: Bonnie F. Boschee and Floyd Boschee, “A Profile of Homeschooling in South Dakota” in Journal of School Choice: Research, Theory, and Reform 5, no. 3 (2011): 281-299. Summary: Floyd Boschee, emeritus professor of education at University of South Dakota, … Continue reading →

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