Home/Schooling

Please check out my new book! Home/Schooling: Creating Schools that Work for Kids, Parents and Teachers.

This book is intended for a wide readership. I hope that classroom teachers find the book an insightful reading of the difficulties and joys of teaching. I hope parents--whether they homeschool their children or send them to their local public school--find the book empowering. I hope my academic colleagues are challenged to rethink some of the accepted truths in our field.

What are some of the main points of the book?

1) This book challenges us to rethink the ways in which parents and teachers interact with one another. It seeks to redefine “homeschooling” as something all families engage in and that all public schools should seek to support.

2) This book provides a readable history of compulsory schooling in the United States. It questions triumphal narratives about the rise of public education while still drawing inspiration from the work of nineteenth century reformers such as Horace Mann, Mary Peabody Mann, Louisa May Alcott and Catharine Beecher.

3) This book questions the assumptions of twentieth century progressive educators, including John Dewey, who built their projects for school reform on the assumption that the home was no longer a place where children could learn.

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to talk more about this fun and exciting project!

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