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On Blacks Choosing Home-Based Education

Brian D. Ray, Home School Researcher, 2007, Volume 17, Number 3, p. 9-12.

[note: This article appears in the section of Home School Researcher that is entitled “Perspectives – News and Comments” and articles in this section have not undergone peer review.]

Author reviews issue of homeschooling by blacks by presenting thoughts of some negative critics of people of color homeschooling, pointing out that these negative critiques are philosophical in nature while offering no empirical evidence to support their claims that homeschooling is worse for the “common good” or “equity,” and presenting why many black parents are choosing home-based education.

Keywords, descriptors, key terms: blacks, African Americans, common good, equity, home schooling, homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, home-based education.