School choice in Canada: Lessons for America

Milke, Mark. (2010, November 8). School choice in Canada: Lessons for America. Backgrounder Heritage Foundation, No. 2485. Retrieved 7/18/13 from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/11/school-choice-in-canada-lessons-for-america.  (Homeschooling is a significant topic of this paper. Presents number of homeschool students in Alberta. “Alberta has been the most innovative, flexible, and supportive province in Canada as it concerns homeschooling” (p. 7). Implicitly,

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Does market competition encourage strategic action in the private education sector?

Aurini, Janice; & Quirke, Linda. (2011). Does market competition encourage strategic action in the private education sector? Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 36(2) 2011, 173-197. (Mentions homeschooling only once: “We interviewed key actors in the private education field — the head of a private school lobby group, educational consultants, representatives of [p. 181

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Choice without markets: Homeschooling in the context of private education

Aurini, Janice; & Davies, Scott. (2005). Choice without markets: Homeschooling in the context of private education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26(4), 461-474. (Provides an insightful, balanced, and fairly accurate portrayal of the homeschool community and its history and motivations. “Abstract: Homeschooling is enjoying new‐found acceptance in North America. Drawing on a variety of

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