Posts Tagged ‘Jedediah Purdy’
Don’t Confuse Homeschooling Cause and Effect
Don't Confuse Homeschooling Cause and Effect By Linda Dobson There's a notion floating around out there that there's something "different" about families who choose homeschooling. Jedediah Purdy, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (Knopf) and a young man who experienced homeschooling in West Virginia [...]
Life without Constraints of Compulsory Attendance (What a Wonderful World It Would Be)
Thanks to a “conversation” I’ve been having with some terrific ladies at the Alternatives to Mainstream Parenting section of CafeMom in response to the recent special report on the epidemic proportion of anxiety and depression in school kids, my mind was churning with the question of how to convey what homeschooling provides, in place of [...]
