Patricia M. Lines
PH.D., J.D.
Academic Work
The links below will take you to just a few examples of my published academic work. In time, I hope to post many more articles, so check this site again in a few months. The whole site is a work in progress.
Many of the links below will take you to an external website. If any of those links fail to work, please let me know (go to the "Contact" section listed above). In some cases, I may have a copy of my own that I can post.
- Private Choices and Public Obligations This is an older paper written while I was at the U.S. Department of Education. I hope to bring it up to date soon. It responds to criticism of homeschooling that claims it to be insular and undemocratic.
- Antigone's Flaw This link takes you to the site of the journal, Humanitas.
- Homeschooling Comes of Age. This link is to my copy of an article published in The Public Interest, which sadly after 40 years, has closed its doors. The archives continue to be available through a commercial vendor. My copy may not be be precisely the version published, but I believe it is close.
- When Homeschoolers Go to School: A Partnership Between Families and Schools. This was an early examination of a growing trend among public and private schools to offer support and educational services to homeschoolers. This article appeared in the Peabody Journal of Education, established at Venderbilt University.
- Shackling the Imagination: Education for Virtue in Plato and Rousseau This link takes you to the site of the journal, Humanitas.
- Helping Your Baby to Talk Developed with Colleen E. Morisset, of the University of Washington.The work reflect my abiding belief that parents are the first and best educators of their children.
- Please let me know what other publications you would like to see posted here. PML