Review of Home Schooling: Political, Historical, and Pedagogical Perspectives (Contemporary Studies in Social and Policy Issues in Education: The David C. Anchin Center Series) (Hardcover)

As a scholar, working as an associate professor of cultural and interdisciplinary studies at AntiochCollege, I have a student population that contains a large number of home schooled students.Much has been published in recent years on home schooling, but this balanced collection remains the best source of information available on home schooling.It includes information on state regulation, historical context, the reality of particular family's experiences, the motivations of different groups heavily invested in home schooling, etc...For any academic undertaking a study of home schooling, for any parent considering home schooling of their own child or children, I highly recommend a serious reading of this definitive book.

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This significant volume studies the growing body of research on home education, and offers a broad analysis of this movement. Introductory chapters present the most current information on the demographics of the movement and on the social and academic outcomes of home education. Beyond these data, the broader implications of the movement are considered in chapters discussing legal issues and policy analysis. Additional chapters provide historical and sociological analysis of the conflicts between parents and schools that often precipitate the decision to home school. The volume ends with an anthropological analysis of learning in the informal home setting and a philosophical critique of the movement as an abandonment of a belief in the efficacy of common schooling.

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Review of Home Schooling: The Right Choice : An Academic, Historical, Practical, and Legal Perspective (Paperback)

I read this book after hearing it recommended by Chuck Missler in one of his briefings. This book is filled with a lot of information on the historical background of home schooling here in America.It lists many examples of home schooled children that went on to become some of the most important people in American history (basically most of the founders of the USA).Klicka also has a lot of statistics that show the success of today's average home schooled students when compared to average public education students.The book has been around for years, and this is a new, updated, version of that old book.Since this book was first written the number of home schoolers has skyrocketed.After reading this book, one can fully understand why most public school teachers choose to send their own children to private schools (if they don't choose to home school).Klick know from where he speaks. He is the head of the Home School Legal Defense Association that assists home schoolers around the country.He and his wife have home schooled all of their children and he is dedicated to the cause as part of his religious convictions.Today, there a many people, including many non-religious ones, who are choosing to home school, and Klicka is one of the people who have made that option possible today by making sure their rights to do it are kept intact. If you have even the slightest interest in possibly home schooling your children, then this is the book to start with.



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Review of Home, Miss Moses: A Novel in the Time of Harriet Tubman (Paperback)

I found this book inspiring and enriching. It's a novel, but I learned a lot from it.It's a suspense story in some ways and a history lesson too.An intriguing, complex book, it follows a vast sweep of American history that this one woman's life covered in reality.Harriet Tubman was no ordinary woman.And you get an up-close and personal glimpse of her spirit and stunning courage and fortitude in these pages.The horrific injustice of slavery as she lived it and saw it leaps off the page.You get a window onto both the remarkable cunning and the deep heart of this visionary American patriot who sacrificed everything to end this shameful episode of our history.Although it's a bit of a struggle to get used to the "patois" of her voice (a slave dialect) and there are also a lot of people and places to keep track of as you read, keeping you on your toes, it's well worth it.Check it out.

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Inspired by the author's personal relationship with her, this compelling novel is a fictional account of the legendary Harriet Tubman and her life during the American Civil War. Told in the first person, the story begins with Tubman's life as a slave and follows her fearless pursuit of freedom, both for herself and countless others, on the Underground Railroad. Gripping and highly graphic, the novel reveals Tubman's days as a spy for the Union during battles in the South, presenting a new image of the horrors of war.



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