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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.
The Homeschooling Revolution
Research Organizations
National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)
Cato Institute
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
The Home School Researcher
Home School Research from HSLDA
Homeschool Research Analysis
The Case for Authentic Assessment
Homeschooling Facts
Statistics on Public School vs. Homeschool
U.S. Department of Education Longitudinal Study of 2002: Homeschool Student Questionnaire
Homeschooling in the United States: 1999
Homeschooling Comes of Age
Socialization: A Great Reason Not to Go to School
Evidence for Homeschooling: Constitutional Analysis in Light of Social Science Research
Home Schooling Achievement
Careful Study Finds Homeschool Advantage
Homeschooling Growth in the 1980s
Homeschoolers: Estimating Numbers and Growth
Homeschooling Grows Up
Structured homeschooling gets an A+
Homeschooling and Socialization Revisited
Homeschooling Grows in the Black Community
HSLDA's Position on Tax Credits Generally
Homeschooling: A Growing Option in American Education
The Case for Homeschooling
Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 Statistical Analysis Report
Statistics and Data for Delaware and the U.S.
The Characteristics of Homeschooled and Nonhomeschooled Students
1.1 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2003
The Case for Homeschooling
Delaware Department of Education Enrollment Report--Nonpublic Schools in Delaware 2006-2007
Sources of Curriculum or Books
Delaware DOE Statistics on Homeschoolers
Home Schooling Works!
Estimated Number of Homeschooled Students in the United States - 2003
Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 Statistical Analysis Report
Parents' Reasons for Homeschooling
Homeschooling in the United States: 1999
Home School Research from HSLDA
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