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Topic: HISTORY

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Beshoner, E. Alice Law. "Home Education in America: Parental Rights Reasserted." UMKC Review 49, no. 2 (1981): 191-206.

Bloodworth, Robert Harrison. "A Legal History of Home Schooling in North Carolina." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991.

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Carlson, Allan. "Household Freedom and Home Education: New Agrarian Dreams for the Twenty-First Century." The Cresset (2003): 5-10.

Carper, James C. "Home Schooling, History, and Historians: The Past as Present." The High School Journal 75, no. April/May (1992): 252-57.

Carper, James C. "Pluralism to Establishment to Dissent: The Religious and Educational Context of Home Schooling." PJE. Peabody Journal of Education 75, no. 1/2 (2000): 8-19.

Carper, James C., and Thomas C. Hunt. The Dissenting Tradition in American Education. New York: P. Lang, 2007.

Carper, James C., and Brian D. Ray. "Religion, Schooling, and Home Education: Past and Present." In Religion, Education, and the American Experience : Reflections on Religion and American Public Life, edited by Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer, 223-42. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Carper, James C., and Brian D. Ray. "Conservative Christian Strategies in Education." In The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether and Marie Cantlon, 889-96. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

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Cochran, Casey Patrick. "The Home School Movement in the United States: Georgia as a Test Case, 1979--1984." Emory University, 1993.

Coleman, Rachel E. "Ideologues, Pedagogues, Pragmatics: A Case Study of the Homeschool Community in Delaware County, Indiana." Ball State University, 2010.

Cox, Rachel S. "Home Schooling Debate: Is the Movement Undermining Public Education?" CQ Researcher 13, no. 2 (2003): 25-48.

Cutler, William W. Parents and Schools : The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Dare, Mary Jo. "The Tensions of the Home School Movement: A Legal/Political Analysis." Indiana University, 2001.

Farenga, Pat "Homeschooling and John Holt's Vision." In Challenging the Giant: The Best of Ekoe, the Journal of Alternative Education, 198-216. Albany, NY: Down-To-Earth Books, 1992.

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Gaither, Milton. Homeschool : An American History. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Gatto, John Taylor. "The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling." The Educational Forum 58, no. 3 (1994): 276-81.

Gordon, Edward E., and Elaine H. Gordon. Centuries of Tutoring : A History of Alternative Education in America and Western Europe. Lanham: University Press of America, 1990.

Gordon, William M. "The Law of Home Schooling." In NOLPE Monograph Series, 1994.

Hanson, Terje Ann. "Home Schooling in Alaska: Extreme Experiments in Home Education." University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2000.

Harris, Chris. "What Are British Home Educators Opting out Of?" Home School Researcher 15, no. 1 (2002): 13-16.

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Kaseman, Larry, and Susan Kaseman. "Hslda's 'History' Erodes the Foundation of Our Freedom." Home Education Magazine (2001).

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Knowles, J. Gary. "Parents' Rationales for Operating Home Schools." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 20, no. 2 (1991): 203.

Knowles, J. Gary. "Home Education: Personal Histories." In Home-School Relations: Working Successfully with Parents and Families, edited by Glenn W. Olsen and Mary Lou Fuller, 302-31. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.

Knowles, J. G., S. E. Marlow, and J. A. Muchmore. "From Pedagogy to Ideology: Origins and Phases of Home Education in the United States, 1970-1990." American Journal of Education 100, no. 2 (1992): 195-235.

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Kunzman, Robert. "Home Room: What We Don't Know About Homeschooling." Books & Culture 15, no. 6 (2009): 11, 13.

Kunzman, Robert. Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling. Boston: Beacon Press, 2009.

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McVicar, Michael J. "Reconstructing America: Religion, American Conservatism, and the Political Theology of Rousas John Rushdoony." Ohio State University, 2010.

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O'Connell, Michael Brian. "Home Schooling: An Historical Inquiry." University of Sarasota, 1998.

Pitman, Mary Anne. "Home Schooling: A Review of the Literature." Journal of Thought 21, no. 4 (1986): 10-24.

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Zur Nedden, Natalie. "Reflections on Homeschooling, Mothering, and Social Change: The Life History of Wendy Priesnitz." University of Toronto, 2008.