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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.

57. See, for instance, Nancy Wallace, "Escape! Breaking Out

of the School System," Inquiry, March 29, 1982; Selwyn

Feinstein, "Domestic Lessons/Shunning the Schools, More

Parents Teach Their Kids at Home," Wall Street Journal,

October 6, 1986, p. 1; Casey Banas, "More Parents Teaching

Children Themselves," Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1989, p. 8;

"Home Sweet School," Time, October 31, 1994, p. 62; John

Strausbaugh, "Home's Cool," New York Press, June 7, 1995;

Mary Maushard, "Parent Discontent Fuels Home Schooling,"

Baltimore Sun, April 25, 1996, p. 1A; and Victoria Benning,