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Case V:
Home-schooling in Homer-Center, Pennsylvania
(17 February)
 Yale UniversityPolitical Science DepartmentPLSC 240Spring 2009 John Bryan Starr 
 
Case V:
Home-schooling in Homer-Center, Pennsylvania
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Table of ContentsThe case 
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Document #1:
 
“ 
Home-schooling
”
(
Education Week
Issues Page) (available athttp://www.edweek.org/rc/issues/home-schooling/)4
Exhibit #1: 
Number and percentage of home schooled students, ages 5 through 17with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12th grade, by variouscharacteristics7
Exhibit #2
:
Number and percentage of home schooled students whose parentsreported particular reasons for home-schooling as being applicable to their situationand as being their most important reason for home-schooling: 2003
 
9
Exhibit #3:
Number and percentage of home schooled students, ages 5 through 17with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12
th
grade, whose parents reportedusing various sources of curriculum or books: 200310
Exhibit #4:
Number and percentage of home schooled students, ages 5 through 17with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12
th
grade, who engaged in distancelearning using various media: 200311
Document #2:
Lowell C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup,
The 33
rd 
Phi DeltaKappa/Gallup Poll of the Public 
’ 
s Attitudes toward the Public Schools
(available athttp://www.pdkmembers.org/e-GALLUP/kpoll_pdfs/pdkpoll33_2001.pdf )11
Document #3: 
Kariane Mari Welner (UCLA Graduate School of Education &Information Studies),
Exploring the Democratic Tensions within Parents
’ 
Decisions toHomeschool 
(New York: National Center for the Study of Privatization in EducationTeachers College, Columbia University, 2002)14
Document #4:
Clive R. Belfield,
“
Home-Schooling in the US January 2004,
”
 (New York: National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education TeachersCollege, Columbia University, Occasional Paper No. 88) (Available athttp://www.ncspe.org/publications_files/OP88.pdf )37
Document #5:
Lawrence Harvey, “Learning Without School,”
 American School Board Journal 
188:8 (August 2001)
 
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Document #6:
Rebecca Talluto, “Accountability for Home-Schoolers,”
 AmericanSchool Board Journal 
188:8 (August 2001)
 
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Document #7:
 
Lawrence M. Rudner,
“
Scholastic Achievement and DemographicCharacteristics of Home School Students in 1998,
”
 
Education Policy Analysis Archives
7:8 (1999).68
 
Case V:
Home-schooling in Homer-Center, Pennsylvania
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Document #8:
Kariane Mari Welner and Kevin G. Welner 
 
“
ContextualizingHome-schooling Data: A Response to Rudner,
”
 
Education Policy Analysis Archives
(1999)106
Document #9:
 
Isabel Lyman,
“
Keeping Home-schooling Private,
”
 
The New  American
19:8 (September 2003).114
Document #10 :
Rob Reich,
“
The Civic Perils of Home-schooling,
”
 
Educational Leadership
59:7 (April 2002).117
Document #11:
Brian D. Ray,
Home-schooling Grows Up: Socialization? No problem! 
 
(Washington, DC: Home School Legal Defense Association, 2003) (Available athttp://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/Home-schoolingGrowsUp.pdf )122
Document #12:
 
 Jean C. Halle,
“
Home-schooling: Why We Should Care,
”
 
Education Week,
November 13, 2002.129
Document #13:
 
 J. Dan Marshall and James P. Valle,
“
Public School Reform:Potential Lessons from the Truly Departed,
”
 
Education Policy Analysis Archives
4:12(August 1996)132
Document #14:“ 
Brief overview of Pennsylvania state regulations governing home-schooling” National Home Education Network(http://www.nhen.org/leginfo/detail.asp?StateCode=Pennsylvania)143
 
Document #15:
Pennsylvania Statute 24 PS 13-1327.1 Home education program(Available at the Pennsylvania Department of Education Web site,http://www.pde.state.pa.us.144
Document #16:
 John Creason, compiler,
Home Education in Pennsylvania 2004-05 
 (Pennsylvania Department of Education, February 2006) (Available athttp://www.pde.state.pa.us/k12statistics/lib/k12statistics/homeEd0405withFig2.pdf )150
Background informationon Homer City and its schools
153
Exhibit #5:
Homer-Center school system statistics
156
 Exhibit #6:
 
Homer-Center School Governance
157
Exhibit #7:
Timeline of events in Combs et al. v. Homer-Center School District
158
Document #17:
Abbey Kerins,
“
Home-schooling in Homer-Center, Pennsylvania,
”
 (Unpublished research paper for Education 176, Spring 2006) Excerpts.159
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