Kingdom of Children : Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement /

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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: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Home schooling.
Educational sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
EDUCATION > Home Schooling.
Sociologie de l'education > États-Unis.
École à la maison.
Sociologie de l'education.
Educational sociology > United States.
Home schooling > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9781400824809

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