Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology and author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement, talks about his book and the different home-school constituencies in the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Hot Type" column (Oct. 11 issue).
Home schooling "embodies some of our most fashiobnable education ideas: that children should be treated as individuals, taught in small numbers, and given a measure of discretion over their own learning -- similar to popular education from Montessori to Waldorf schools," Stevens says.
