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PARENTS’ RIGHTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROVISION: An Argument for Abolishing all Private Schooling

Record: Roger Marples, “Parents’ Rights and Educational Provision” in Studies in the Philosophy and Education 33, no. 1 (January 2014): 23-39. Summary:  Marples, a Principal Lecturer in Education at University of Roehampton in London, here makes a spirited argument against … Continue reading

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DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: Homeschooling Parents Speak

Record:  Kenneth V. Anthony, “Declarations of Independence: Home School Families’ Perspectives on Education, the Common Good, and Diversity” in Current Issues in Education 16, no. 1 (February 2013): 1-15. [Abstract here] Summary:  Anthony, Assistant Professor of Education at Mississippi University … Continue reading

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QUIVERFULL: A Journalist’s Account of a Homeschooling Sub-Culture, Part 3

This post is the final installment of my treatment of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. In my first post I summarized the book’s content.  In my second post I offered a few critiques and generalizations.  Here I’d … Continue reading

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HOMESCHOOLING: THE FUTURE, an Argument both For and Against Increased Regulation

Record: Ronald Kreager, Jr., “Homeschooling: The Future of Education’s Most Basic Institution,” in University of Toledo Law Review, 42, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 227-233. [Excerpt available here] Summary/Critique: Kreager, a J.D. candidate at the University of Toledo College of Law, … Continue reading

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