Book - Parent
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. Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement. 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.--Publisher's Notes
All Ages
Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
English
0691114684
Mitchell L. Stevens
2003 Princeton University Press
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