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Pennsylvania Christian Homeschooling Communities’ Perceptions of Vaccines

Record: Jeremiah D. McCoy, Julia E. Painter, and Kathryn H. Jacobsen, “Perceptions of Vaccination Within A Christian Homeschooling Community in Pennsylvania” in Vaccine 37(2019): 5770-5776. [Abstract here] Summary:  George Mason University graduate Jeremiah McCoy is the Health Policy Analyst at Better … Continue reading

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CHILD TORTURE AS A FORM OF CHILD ABUSE: Homeschooling’s Role

Record: Barbara L. Knox, Suzanne P. Starling, Kenneth W. Feldman, Nancy D. Kellogg, Lori D. Frasier, and Suzanna L. Tiapula, “Child Torture as a Form of Child Abuse” in Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma 7, (2014): 37-49. Summary:  The authors, affiliated … Continue reading

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PULLING BACK THE CURTAINS: A Lawyer Advocates for Increased Regulation of Homeschooling to Stop Child Abuse

Record:  Tyler Barnett, “Pulling Back the Curtains: Undetected Child Abuse and the Need for Increased Regulation of Homeschools in Missouri” in B.Y.U. Education & Law Journal (2013): 341-356. [excerpt here] Summary:  Barnett, a J.D. candidate from the University of Missouri … Continue reading

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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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State Homeschooling Enrollment Data 2013

On my old site I occasionally posted all the available data on enrollment compiled by the various states in the USA.  This data is not the best for several reasons.  First, many states do not collect data on enrollments at … Continue reading

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Two Brief Articles on Homeschooling and Child Abuse

Records: Daniel Pollack, “Homeschooling and Child Protection” in Policy and Practice 70, no. 1 (February 2012): 29, 35. [abridged version available here] Meggan Goodpasture, V. Denise Everett, Martha Gagliano, Aditee P. Narayan, and Sara Sinal, “Invisible Children” in North Carolina … Continue reading

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