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Home Schooling and Social Capital. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(Brief Article)
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When it got seriously underway in the mid-1980s, many thought home schooling was little more than another gesture of disgruntlement on the part of"the religious right." Today, it is estimated by some that two million children are being home schooled, and the movement is beginning to look like that great thing ever chased by liberals, the wave of the future. In the Atlantic, Margaret Talbot sympathetically reviews Mitchell Stevens' study of the phenomenon, Kingdom of Children (Princ...
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Home Schooling and Social Capital. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(Brief Article)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; When it got seriously underway in the mid-1980s, many thought home schooling was little more than another gesture of disgruntlement on the part of the religious right. Today, it is estimated by some that two million children are being home schooled, and the movement is beginning to look like that
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Public schools face crisis
Baltimore Afro-American
; Back in 1971, the late Albert Shanker, then president of the American Federation of Teachers, warned that public schools were facing extinction. He wrote that the proposal for vouchers so public school children can attend private schools was an "experiment" that was dangerous because it is
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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GET RID OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.(Editorial)(Column)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ... administrators urged him to leave and, when he didn't, had him arrested. Lately there have been other similar incidents in the news. Then there are parents like my wife and me. We sent our children to public and not private secondary school so they'd become ...
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Social capital construction and the role of the local state
Rural Sociology
; ABSTRACT As globalization weakens the role of the nation state, increased theoretical and practical attention is being focused on community level action, especially on the role of social capital. Proponents of social capital have placed primary emphasis on voluntary associations. This paper looks
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The Social Sources of Alienation from Public Schools.(Statistical Data Included)
Social Forces
; Nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century conflicts over elementary and secondary schooling were shaped by religious divisions and the relationship of school and community (Meyer et al. 1979). One of the most noted examples is the effort of social-gospel Protestants to remake immigrants in their own
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Bible vs. Board of Education; Evangelicals Increase Call to Pull Kids From Public Schools
The Washington Post
; Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing, loosely organized movement is now moving from strong words to action: parents pulling their children out of public schools and exhorting other families to do the same. Led mainly by evangelical Christians, the movement depicts public education
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Vouchers will help public schools.(OPINION)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters WASHINGTON -- Few question whether school vouchers are beneficial for the students who use them to leave failing schools. Rather, the debate has focused on the effect vouchers will have on public schools. Opponents contend that vouchers will drain
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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MAYBE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AREN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL.(Editorial)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Wade Buchanan Just when you thought there was national agreement that public schools are in terrible shape, along comes credible evidence that they're actually doing OK. A national survey by National Public Radio, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government asked more
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Voucher movement threatens public schools
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; Philadelphia Tribune, The 12-01-1998 Voucher movement threatens public schools It is hard to understand the movement to abandon, or to at least diminish, America's system of public schools. If the movement succeeds, it will be tantamount to killing the roots of the tree that provides the resources,
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Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective
Journal of Third World Studies
; Rothberg, Robert I. (ed Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 394pp. As the title suggests, this book surveys the utility of social capital as a theoretical construct. The distinguished contributors to
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