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RESISTING THE STATUS QUO: Black Homeschoolers in Atlanta and Washington DC

Record: Cheryl Fields-Smith and Monica Wells Kisura, “Resisting the Status Quo: The Narratives of Black Homeschoolers in Metro-Atlanta and Metro-DC” in Peabody Journal of Education 88, no. 3 (2013): 265-283. Summary:  Fields-Smith of the University of Georgia, whose pathbreaking work … Continue reading

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CAN INTIMACY JUSTIFY HOME EDUCATION?: A Speculative Argument

Record:  Michael S. Merry and Charles Howell, “Can Intimacy Justify Home Education?” in Theory and Research in Education, November 2009. Summary:  Merry, professor of philosophy of education at the University of Amsterdam and author of an important recent book on … Continue reading

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FAMILY TIES: Inside Homeschooling with a Sociologist

Record Gary Wyatt, Family Ties: Relationships, Socialization, and Homeschooling (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007). Summary Wyatt offers here a short book summarizing the results of twelve years as a participant observer in the homeschooling world.  He makes several … Continue reading

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