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NOTE: This message was originally in conference “Home Education [FIDO]”

and was copied here by Ron Bowden.

NOTE: This message was originally in conference “Home Education [RIME]”

and was copied here by Ron Bowden.

Salutations from Ron Bowden:

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Magazines that report or print homeschooling research: Education and Urban Society. Special issue: Understanding Home Schools: Emerging Research and Reactions. J. Gary Knowles, Ed. Volume 21, No. 1, Nov. 1988 Growing Without Schooling, 2269 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02140 Home Education Magazine, PO Box 1083, Tonasket WA 98855 (Their Jan./Feb. 1991 issue contains a special section on research.) Home Education Researcher, The National Home Education Research Institute, 25 W. Cremona St. Seattle, WA 98110 The Teaching Home, PO Box 20219, Portland OR 97220 Books that report homeschooling research: Moore, Raymond and Dorothy (1988). Home School Burnout: What it is. What Causes It. And How To Overcome It. Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt. The Moores have written many other books about homeschooling based on their research and studies; this is their most recent. Some of their other titles are (1979) School Can Wait . Provo, UT: Brigham Young Univ. Press; (1982) Homespun Schools . Waco, TX : Word Books; (1984) Homestyle Teaching. Waco, TX : Word Books. Van Galen, J. & Pitman, M.A. eds. (1991). Home Schooling: Political, Historical, and Pedagogical Perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. Webb, Julie (1990). Children Learning At Home. London, UK: Falmer Press Books and articles related to, but not specifically about, homeschooling research: Arons, S. (1983) Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling, Amherst, MA: Univ. of MA Press. Studies the conflict between the individual and institutionalism in education, with a section on homeschooling. Farenga, P. , ed. (1991) Homeschooling In The News, Cambridge, MA: Holt Associates. Collection of national print media articles about homeschooling that are not academically oriented. Useful for seeing how the mass media portrays homeschooling. Holt, J. (1981) Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education. Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, NY. McCarthy, Oppewal, Peterson, Spykman, (1981) Society, State, & Schools, Grand Rapids, MI: Eermans. This is a scholarly study that advocates multiple educational systems that tolerate pluralistic worldviews. Resnick, L. (1987) Learning In School and Out, Educational Researcher, December 1987. 13 – 20. Shows that practically none of the skills learned in school are transferable to the world of work. Seefeldt, C. ed. (1990). Continuing Issues in Early Childhood Education. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill. Chapters by Dr. Raymond Moore about delaying school entrance and by Susannah Sheffer, editor of Growing Without Schooling, about homeschooling. Tizard, B. and Hughes, M. (1984). Young Children Learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. Ample evidence that children of working class parents learn more effectively at home than in nursery schools. This is one of many articles available from Holt Associates about homeschooling. Excerpted from: Holt Associates Inc., 2269 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 864-3100

12. How can my friends get access to the net?

(In addition to these, see the end of this message for a pointer to a “guide to the internet” published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.)