Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement

by Joseph F. Murphy

This book is the definitive study on homeschooling in the United States, delving into a movement that impacts more students nationwide than the entire charter school movement. In 2010, more than 2 million students were homeschooled. This book

The history of homeschooling in America. How this movement has grown in credibility and enrollment exponentiallyThe current state of homeschooling, including questions over who gets homeschooled, why, and what is the success—academically and in life—of students who are homeschooledThe impact of homeschooling on the student and on American societyIn the most extensive survey and analysis of research on homeschooling, spanning the birth of the movement in the 1970s to today, Homeschooling in America shines a light on one of the most important yet least understood social movements of the last forty years and what it means for education today.

Genres: Nonfiction

202 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2012

About the author

Joseph Murphy is Professor of Education, Endowed Mayborn Chair, Department of Leadership, Policy & Organizations, and is Associate Dean, Special Projects, at Peabody College of Education of Vanderbilt University.
Professor Murphy's focus is on school development, particularly leadership and policy.

See, for his C.V., http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/docs/pd...

Reviews

[Josh Dollins · Rating 3 out of 5]

a scholarly study on studies of homeschooling very interesting for those curious parents etc. though a bit dry

[Ilib4kids · Rating 2 out of 5]

371.042097 MUR
Chap3 Riding History

p33 Holt and the Liberal Left (John Holt: unschooling, Romanticism and progressive education)
Moore and Christian Right (Raymond Moore, majority in homeschool)

p46 Rationales for and against Homeschooling regulation rest on four pillars: philosophical, academic, human development, sociopolitical.
Low regulation, Medium regulation, high regulation.

P100 Parent motivations for Homeschooling: religious-based; academic-grounded, school social/environmental, family-based reasons.

p114 homeschooling packaging system: Traditional; Unschooling; Eclectic; classical (trivium) or
homeschooling packaging system:Unschooling; Classical education; unit studies; the Charlotte Mason method; traditional school-at-home, correspondence school; school-related umbrella organizations; cooperative; computer-based.