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Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movementreviewed by Kurt J. Bauman - 2004 Title: Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement Author(s): Mitchell L. Stevens Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton ISBN: 0691058180, Pages: 228, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Homeschooling is one of the most unique and surprising social
movements of the last few decades. According to the National
Center for Education Statistics, some 850,000 students in the
United States were being homeschooled in 1999 (Bielick, Chandler
and Broughman, 2001), and the number gives every appearance of
growing. Yet we don’t really have answers to
some of basic questions about this phenomenon: “What is it
all about? Who is doing it? Why are they doing
it? Is homeschooling going to grow or is it just a
fad?” and finally, “How will it affect
schools?”
Mitchell Stevens’ short, readable and fascinating book
The Kingdom of Children explores homeschooling as a social
movement and examines how the leadership and organization of the
movement has transformed it from its origins to its current
form. It is a book about how the organization of social
movements makes a difference in their failure or success. It
is a book about the relative success of the liberal
“alternative” political movements and the conservative
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- Kurt Bauman
E-mail Author KURT J. BAUMAN is a demographer and sociologist focusing on trends in educational attainment and measures of family well-being. His current research interests include measurement of high school dropout, GED recipiency, and home schooling.
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