“More black families home schooling”
Read a Dec. 11, 2005, AP article posted by USA Today about the increasing numbers of black families choosing to homeschool.
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“The Gilded Age of Home Schooling”
Read a June 5, 2006, New York Times article about homeschooling trends in the United States.
“Homeschooling for Black Families”
Read an article from the January/February 2007 issue of Mothering magazine posted at Cafemom.com about black families who choose to homeschool.
“Giving Proper Credit to Home-Schooled”
Read a June 11, 2007, Washington Post article about the successes of homeschooling.
“Families keep homeschooling despite tough times”
Read an Associated Press story posted March 4, 2009, at USAToday.com about homeschooling during the economic downturn.
“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.
“Group Asks Court to Reconsider Removing Girl from Home School”
See a Sept. 1, 2009, Fox News story about efforts to reverse a family-law judge’s ruling that a homeschooled girl should be moved into public education; among those protesting the ruling are religious-freedom advocates.
“Confessions of a home-schooler”
Read a Sept. 28, 2009, post at Salon.com written by the father of homeschooled children.
Franklin E. Zimring
Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. He specializes in issues of criminology, violence and family law.