Has Homeschooling Doubled? Harvard Panel Debates Growth
May 19, 2021
For at least one researcher, reports indicating that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a doubling in the number of American homeschooling households merit skepticism.
Sarah Grady questioned the US Census Bureau’s findings during the second session of a homeschooling conference sponsored by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Grady works as a statistician for the US Department of Education. Her presentation on May 13 explained the ways the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) a primary source of data on American homeschooling gathers information.
Differing Methods
To address the session’s topic of “growth and diversity in post-pandemic homeschooling,” Grady contrasted NCES researchers’ preference of contacting households using small, carefully selected lists of residential addresses with
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Joseph S. Nye Jr., a political scientist who is well known for his soft power theory, said the metaphors of Thucydides Trap and new Cold War are not appropriate terms to portray the Sino-US relationship, as the two countries are not in a life-or-death competition.
Nye, the former dean of Harvard University s Kennedy School of Government, said China and the United States do not pose existential threats to each other and are widely interdependent such as in economy and ecology so the Sino-US relationship cannot be defined as a new cold war. The coiner of soft power proposed that the two countries should be careful of the language they use to avoid the destructive results of exaggerated fear.
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