Kingdom of children : culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement /

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 remarkab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stevens, Mitchell L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Series:	Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
Subjects:	Home schooling > United States. Educational sociology > United States. École à la maison > États-Unis. Sociologie de l'éducation > États-Unis. Huisonderwijs. Onderwijssociologie. Privatunterricht. Eltern. USA.
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter one: Inside home education
Chapter two: From parents to teachers
Chapter three: Natural mothers, godly women
Chapter four: Authority and diversity
Chapter five: Politics
Chapter six: Nurturing the expanded self
Notes
Index.