The spatial politics of educational privatization: Re-reading the US homeschooling movement

Spatial Theories of Education: Policy and Geography Matters

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-36

  Thiem, Claudia Hanson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203940983     Document Type: Chapter

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