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Tag Archives: Amish
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
Posted in Policy/Regulation, Public Schools, Religion
Tagged Amish, Autonomy, Charles Fried, Convention on the Rights of the Child, England, Joel Feinberg, John Locke, Robert Nozick, Roger Marples, The Enlightenment, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, University of Roehampton
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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
Posted in Legal, Parental Motivation, Religion
Tagged Amish, common good, Current Issues in Education, diversity, First Amendment, First Amendment Center, Jacqueline Pfeffer, John Locke, Kenneth V. Anthony, Mississippi University for Women, Polity, Robert Filmer, Susie Burroughs, Vanderbilt University, Wisconsin v. Yoder
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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
Posted in Gender, Parental Motivation
Tagged Albert Mohler, Amish, Christian Right, Doug Phillips, Gary North, Geoffrey Botkin, God's Harvard, Half-Way Covenant, Hanna Rosin, Harvard College, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Michael Farris, Mormons, Old Order Mennonite, Patriarchy, Patrick Henry College, Protestantism, Puritans, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Reconstructionism, Religious Right, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist, Unitarianism, Yale Divinity School
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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
Posted in Legal
Tagged Amish, Chad Olsen, HSLDA, Judith McMullen, Linda Dobson, North Carolina, Right of the Child, Ronald Kreager Jr., South Carolina Law Review, United Nations' Convention, University of Toledo College of Law, University of Toledo Law Review, Wisconsin v. Yoder
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