Bruce S. Cooper
Bruce S. Cooper is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in Manhattan. He edited Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“Current Controversies: Homeschooling”
Written by Myra Immell (Greenhaven Press, 2008). Immell compiles a variety of views on different topics of discussion in the homeschooling movement.
“Home Schooling in Full View: A Reader”
Written by Bruce S. Cooper, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University (IAP, 2005). Cooper discusses the history of homeschooling and analyzes the movement.
“Homeschooling comes of age”
Read a July 1, 2000, history of the modern homeschooling movement by Patricia Lines, a former senior research analyst for the U.S. Department of Education.
“Homeschooling 101: Why We Do It”
Listen to the 2001 All Things Considered series about the reasons parents choose to homeschool their children.
“The Gilded Age of Home Schooling”
Read a June 5, 2006, New York Times article about homeschooling trends in the United States.
“Kitchen-classroom conservatives: Barack Obama could hasten the spread of educating children at home”
Read an Aug. 6, 2009, article from The Economist about the reasons families are choosing to homeschool their children.
“Faith and finance: Empowering faith leaders to care for congregants in financial crisis”
This December 2011 research report by North Caroline State University reports on the increase of incidents in which church members ask their religious leaders for financial advice.
“Pope Benedict Pins Economic Crisis On ‘Crisis Of Faith’ In His Christmas Speech To The Roman Curia”
Read a December 2011 story published in the Huffington Post about Pope Benedict XVI’s connection between the world economic crisis and the lack of religious faith.