Tag Archives: Home School Legal Defense Association

Expanding Future Farmers of America Membership to Homeschoolers

Record: Matthew J. Kararo and Neil A. Knobloch, “An Analysis of Education-related Policies Regarding the Participation Potential of Homeschool Students in Agricultural Education and FFA” in Journal of Agricultural Education 59(2018): 36-57. [Abstract here] Summary: Matthew Kararo is a Postdoctoral Research … Continue reading

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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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HARO 2014 INSTALLMENT NINE: Abuse

Record: Coalition for Responsible Home Education, “A Complex Picture: Results of the 2014 Survey of Adult Alumni of the Modern Christian Homeschool Movement, Installment Nine” Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out (15 April 2016). [Available Here] Summary: This post reviews the ninth installment of HARO’s survey of … Continue reading

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HARO 2014 INSTALLMENT TWO: Demographics

Record: Coalition for Responsible Home Education, “A Complex Picture: Results of the 2014 Survey of Adult Alumni of the Modern Christian Homeschooling Movement, Installment Two” Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out (1 February 2015). [Available Here] Summary: This post reviews the second installment of HARO’s survey … Continue reading

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HOME EDUCATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Record: Talina Drabsch, “Home Education in NSW” in NSW Parliament E-Brief, issue 7 (August, 2013). [available here] Summary: Drabsch, a frequent contributor to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliamentary Library pubilcations series, here summarizes the home education situation in NSW … Continue reading

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DOES HOMESCHOOLING “WORK”: A Critique of Advocacy Research

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

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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Summaries of Two Recent European Home Education Conferences

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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