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The Homeschooling Revolution
Kingdom of Children : Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside.
Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society.
Kingdom of Children aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so.
Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s.Kingdom of Children shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics, demonstrates the extraordinary political capacity of conservative Protestantism, and explains the subtle ways in which cultural sensibility shapes social movement outcomes more generally.
Research Organizations
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Home School Research from HSLDA
Cato Institute
The Home School Researcher
National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)
Homeschool Research Analysis
HSLDA's Position on Tax Credits Generally
Homeschoolers: Estimating Numbers and Growth
Fifteen Year Later: Home-Educated Canadian Adults
Homeschooling and Socialization Revisited
Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling
The Boundaries of Parental Authority: A Response to Rob Reich of Stanford University by Thomas W. Washburne, J.D.
Thomas W. Washburne, J.D. discusses how Reich's ideas for home education have a dangerous implication on the freedoms of homeschooling parents. Let's Stop Aiding and Abetting Academicians' Folly by Larry and Susan Kaseman
Larry and Susan Kaseman discuss the weaknesses in Reich's study and include strategies to counteract negatively biased research on homeschooling.
Home Schooling Achievement
Homeschooling - ERIC Digest
Homeschooling Facts
The Case for Authentic Assessment
Homeschooling in the United States: 1999
Homeschooling Grows Up
Homeschooling Comes of Age
Academic Statistics on Homeschooling
Homeschooling Is Growing Rapidly in Many States of the United States
Homeschooling Growth in the 1980s
Statistics on Public School vs. Homeschool
How Home Schooling Will Change Public Education
The Case for Homeschooling
Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 Statistical Analysis Report
Research Facts on Homeschooling
NHERI, the National Home Education Research Institute, has compiled these research facts on homeschooling. These fast facts cover the number of homeschooled students, demographics, motivations for home educating, academic performance, social, emotional, and psychological development, socialization, homeschool successes, and general interpretation of research on homeschool success.
Statistics and Data for Michigan and the U.S.
Homeschooling in the United States: 1999
The Case for Homeschooling
Home Schooling Works!
Number of Non Public Schools/Home Schools in Michigan
Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 Statistical Analysis Report
1.1 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2003
Sources of Curriculum or Books
Research Facts on Homeschooling
NHERI, the National Home Education Research Institute, has compiled these research facts on homeschooling. These fast facts cover the number of homeschooled students, demographics, motivations for home educating, academic performance, social, emotional, and psychological development, socialization, homeschool successes, and general interpretation of research on homeschool success.
Canadian Study Confirms Advantages of Homeschooling
Homeschool Statistics and Achievements
Home School Research from HSLDA
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