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Gaither, Milton, author.

Homeschool : an American history / Milton Gaither.

Revised second edition.

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

xix, 317 pages ; 21 cm

This book provides a lively account of one the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. the last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehansive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerges when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to incorporate the most recent scholarship on the topic and to provide comprehensive coverage of recent trends. --Publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Home schooling -- United States -- History.

Home schooling -- Social aspects -- United States.

Home schooling.

History.

Informational works.

The family state, 1600-1776 -- The family nation, 1776-1860 -- The eclipse of the fireside, 1865-1930 -- Why homeschooling happened, 1945-1990 -- Three homeschooling pioneers -- The changing of the guard, 1983-1998 -- Making it legal -- The homeschooling movement and the return of domestic education, 1998-2016.

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