Homeschool: An American History

by Milton Gaither

Book Overview

This is a lively account of one of 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 comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230606008
• ISBN13: 9780230606005
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"