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44. See, for instance, Elsa Walsh, "Home Teaching Is Harder
in Md. under New Rules," Washington Post, May 31, 1984,
p. Dl; William Celis, "Schooling at Home Draws Lawsuits to
Doorsteps," New York Times, May 6, 1992; "Mom Will Contest
Arrest for Teaching Children at Home," Grand Rapids (Michi-
ga )
Press, March 12, 1993; Deirdre M. Childress, "Who
Controls Emily's Education?" Washington Post, November 25,
1995, p. Fl; and Dana Hawkins, "Homeschool Battles," U.S.
News & World Report, February 12, 1996.
45. Christopher J. Klicka, The Right to Home School: A Guide
to the Law on Parents' Rights in Education (Durham, N.C.:
Carolina Academic Press, 1995), pp. 26-27.
46. Quoted in Mark Hegener and Helen Hegener, Alternatives
in Education (Tonasket, Wash.: Home Education Press, 1992),
p. 146.
47. Samuel L. Blumenfeld, How to Tutor (Boise: Paradigm,
1973); Deborah McIntire and Robert Windham, Homeschooling:
Your Questions Answered! (Cypress, Calif.: Creative Teaching
Press, 1996); and Charlotte Mason, The Original Home School-
ing Series (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1993).
48. Quoted in Holt, Teach Your Own, p. 133.
49. Christopher Shea, "From Home to College," Chronicle of
Higher Education, February 2, 1996, p. A31.
50. Ray, "Home Education across the United States," p. 14.
51. Patricia M. Lines, "Home Schooling," ERIC Digest, no.
95, April 1995, EDO-EA-95-3.
52. Ray, "Home Education across the United States," p. 6.
53. Quoted in Van Galen and Pitman, p. 45.
54. "Semifinalists in the 1998 Merit Scholarship Competi-
tion," National Merit Scholarship Corp., Evanston, Ill.,
1997, pp. 14-92.
55. J. Gary Knowles, "Now We Are Adults: Attitudes, Beliefs,
and Status of Adults Who Were Home-educated as Children,"
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educa-
tional Research Association, Chicago, April 3-7, 1991.
56. Interview with Alexandra Swann, homeschool graduate,
June 1997.
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