Helen on December 2nd, 2008

Milton Gaither has an interesting paragraph in his review of Greg and Martine Millman’s book:
Historians and organization theorists will be very interested in the Millmans’ chapter on Homeschool Groups. It begins by connecting homeschooling to the “emergence” scholarship of John H. Holland, explaining that homeschooling is an unplanned and uncontrolled system of networks built “from [...]

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Helen on December 1st, 2008

By the 1990’s homeschooling had become an accepted alternative to public schooling and traditional private schools. Dozens of books touted homeschooling as a desirable approach to living and learning together as a family; newspaper articles and interviews showcased happy, smiling children and their proudly beaming parents. The movement had arrived, found its place in the [...]

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Helen on November 24th, 2008

With the 2008 elections, there has been a rearranging of the political landscape in this country, and a shift of power is in the offing, as suggested in the article by Kathleen Parker. The challenge for us as homeschooling families and advocates has always been how to keep homeschooling from being aligned with a specific ideology, and understanding why that is important, and what effect it will have on our ability to continue to protect, defend, and expand our homeschooling freedoms, and those of our children and grandchildren.

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Helen on November 23rd, 2008

Milton Gaither, author of the book “Homeschool: An American History,” published an article in the winter edition of the respected Stanford University journal Education Next, titled “Homeschooling Goes Mainstream.” Gaither announced the article at his blog: “In it I describe the growing diversity of homeschoolers and the increasingly heterogeneous forms homeschooling is taking, including collaborative efforts between [...]

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Helen on November 19th, 2008

I love the way Valerie frames the question at her Happy as Kings blog: Are Homeschooling Mothers Human? Of course, she immediately explains the title of her post in this comment: “the exclusion of women in some homeschooling circles from the fullness of adult human concerns — reminds me why I continue to re-read Dorothy [...]

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