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Download full textCheryl Fields-Smith; Timberly L. Baker – Thresholds in Education, 2023
Compared to all other options, homeschooling provides parents with the most control over their children's educational experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in the U.S. homeschool population. Black families had the largest increase in home educators from 3.3% to 16.1% between April 2020 and October 2020. The emerging literature on Black…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Home Schooling, African Americans, Mothers
Direct linkCervone, Jason A. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2017
In this article, the author examines the growth of the current strain of fundamentalism that is influencing rural schools in the United States, and how it is, according to him, creating a self-sustaining pipeline of fundamentalists into positions of power. The author details the type of anti-public and anti-democratic education being expressed…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Cultural Groups, Neoliberalism, Social Systems
Kelley, James B. – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the most widely taught texts in language arts classrooms through the English-speaking world and is greatly valued by many readers today for its depiction of youth grappling with racism in the American South of the Depression Era. However, the novel's subtle and sustained critique of…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Literature, Novels, Racial Bias
Kozlowski, Anna T. – 1999
This paper describes home schooling in Alabama from the perspectives of public-school superintendents and home-schooling families. It is based on a study that investigated the extent, causes, and experiences of home schooling; concerns about the practice of home schooling; and the relationship between home schoolers and public-school systems. Home…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Schooling
Ray, Brian D., Ed. – Home School Researcher, 1989
This document consists of five issues of the "Home School Researcher," a quarterly newsletter dedicated to research on instruction in the home. Volume 4, number 3 reports findings of a comparative study of the reasoning abilities of home-educated children. Also included are profiles of four categories of home schoolers: new age,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Community Characteristics, Family Characteristics, Home Schooling
