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 emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. Please visit Gaither's blog here: http://gaither.wordpress.com/homeschool-an-american-history/

Product Description: In this thought-provoking volume, Milton Gaither challenges the dominant view of American educational history held almost universally since the 1960s. Gaither claims that for forty years the myth has persisted of a monolithic pre- 1960 educational historiography narrowly focused on schools and cut off from developments in mainstream historical writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)