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Arizona Law Review source

I just found this source: Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to Education & Protection

I haven't read it fully yet, but a quick skim shows that it covers and critiques a lot of the topics covered in this article. It may be useful as a source, and also may point us to other useful sources. Crossroads ^-talk- 02:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to pop in and thank you for all your recent edits here! You've done some great work. I meant to do something about the state of the article a year and a half ago and I completely forgot about it. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 03:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the appreciation! I just had to do something about the completely uncritical reiteration of those studies. Based on what I've seen so far, I'm sure a lot remains to be done. Crossroads ^-talk- 04:06, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's how I feel about what I did with dynamic pricing today. I'm incredibly busy this weekend but I'll try to remember to take a look at this article again sometime past Tuesday. We can try to collaborate a bit. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:10, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried to improve the history section. I'm not sure how helpful my edits have been but hopefully it's better than it was before. I'm open to respectfully ruthless feedback. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 08:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was also wondering how exactly you wanted to approach collaboration here? I work on a section, you work on a section? Some other method? Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on this so far! I think it's very good. I'm sorry to say I honestly don't know how much time I'll have to spend on this article in the near term, but I'll probably keep coming back and tweaking and adding things here and there. I've still watchlisted it, so I'll comment if any disputes crop up, as well as commenting in other talk page discussions. I suggest you make whatever edits strike you as improvements and I will do the same, and they can thus build on each other.

I'd suggest we try to get that article-wide neutrality tag off first, if we're satisfied with the lead. Any sections that we still think are unbalanced can be tagged individually. Crossroads ^-talk- 02:15, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, sounds like a plan. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 03:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also like to note that my interest in this article may ebb and flow but I don't plan on completely forgetting about it. It's difficult to find the motivation when dealing with an article like this. Anyways, I haven't done much with this source yet but I think it could useful elsewhere. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 10:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am much the same way, so I completely understand. Thank you for your latest edits and for the new source to read. Crossroads ^-talk- 17:21, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Crossroads: I found another source for us to read. Obviously not as great as a journal article but one is linked within the source that may be promising? [1] Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 00:26, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this. I agree that this is useful, possibly in itself, and also whatever papers it links to. Crossroads ^-talk- 00:11, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Additional sources

Aside from the Arizona Law Review source I mentioned above, edits from Luiysia yesterday have pointed to some additional sources I think are worth emphasizing on the talk page, to help balance this article away from the promotionalism it has suffered from.

This is an article in the Washington Post, part of a whole series on homeschooling. It goes over quite a lot, as do the others, likely. From this article I learned of two more sources from people that take a critical eye of homeschooling boosterism, and others may be pointed to in the others in the series:

This is a review article in an academic journal.

This is an entire book from the University of Chicago Press entitled Homeschooling - The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice.

Clovermoss, you'll probably be interested in this. I don't have a lot of time to edit this right now, but I hope this proves useful. Crossroads ^-talk- 19:17, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate the followup. I am interested in this topic, so I can take a crack at these sources. There has been a lot more critical eyes on this topic post-pandemic. Luiysia (talk) 18:24, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to hear, thank you! Crossroads ^-talk- 23:56, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also appreciate it. Everytime I keep trying to spend some time on the topic, something IRL makes me stop. I've made some edits over time but nowhere near where I want to be other than collecting sources and going "this would be nice to use". Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:59, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Crossroads Clovermoss I've updated with information from the review article and WaPo, and put out a hold on the book. Will add more information as I have time. Luiysia (talk) 19:41, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a number of sources and rewritten some sections to be in line with current research. Would appreciate any other saved sources if you have any Clovermoss Crossroads Luiysia (talk) 15:57, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Luiysia: You're still a relatively new editor but I think you meet the requirements for Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library. I remember this source (which I used as ref 11) having more information that could be useful. The Wikipedia Library is pretty great for sources and you can use it to see that one in full. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you out with, I'm really appreciative of your initiative here. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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