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Homeschooling

6/2/2020

Critics of Homeschooling Curtail the Open Discussion They Claim to Want

Opinion

James Mason

In April, Harvard Magazine interviewed Professor Elizabeth Bartholet about a law-review article in which she calls for a “presumptive ban” of homeschooling. The interview “prompted a tsunami of critical responses” by scholars, Harvard alumni, think tanks, homeschooled kids and grads, and homeschooling parents.

5/26/2020

No Need for Bullying in The Debate on Homeschooling

Opinion

Elizabeth Bartholet, Dr. Rachel Coleman, James Dwyer, Milton Gaither, and Frank E. Vandervort

As COVID-19 continues to destroy lives and the economy, forcing millions of American parents to begin teaching their children at home, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took to Twitter to call for shutting down discussion about research on the safety and quality of homeschooling, as well as proposed regulation of that practice.

6/28/2017

States Should Forbid Homeschooling by Adoption Subsidy Recipients

Opinion

Marie K. Cohen

This is the second of two columns focusing on adoption subsidies. In the first column, I focused on the general need for more scrutiny on recipients of adoption subsidies. In this column I discuss the need to prevent abuse of adopted children who are removed from school.

3/28/2017

Protect Homeschooled Children from Child Savers

Opinion

Richard Wexler

More than a year ago, I wrote a column called Donald Trump and the Child Savers: Not a Band, But They Sing the Same Song. In that column I wrote: Some of the same people who probably are horrified by Donald Trump seem to have no problem using his tactics in the fight against child abuse.

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