HOME-SCHOOLING: AN EXAMINATION OF PARENTAL CHOICE AGAINST SOCIETAL NORMS
Thesis (Education (Curriculum and Instruction)) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2009.
Pluralism to Establishment to Dissent: The Religious and Educational Context of Home Schooling
Although estimates of the number of children currently taught by their parents in a home setting vary considerably—from 750,000 to 1.7 million—no one doubts that their numbers have grown rapidly since the mid-1970s, when only 10,000 to 15,000 children were educated at home (Lines, 1998; Ray, 1999). Home schooling is not, however, a new approach to educating the young in this country. It was commonplace in religiously pluralistic colonial America and virtually disappeared with the establishment and expansion of common school systems in the 19th and early 20th century, but it has experienced a renaissance since the mid-1970s, particularly among evangelical Protestant “dissenters” who, ironically, once PEABODY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, 75(1&2), 8–19 Copyright © 2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
The Lunar Rocks
Book on lunar rocks covering pre-Apollo lunar scientific knowledge, Apollo and future lunar mission planning, lunar mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, etc