Adam Ramer: A Decent Education: A Reflection on Homeschooling, the Conservative Christian Right, and Tara Westover’s ‘Educated’
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Through memoirs by both the author and Tara Westover, braided with analysis of personal and national history, theory, and critique that contributed to the rise of homeschooling in the 1980s, this paper seeks to answer a single question: What is a decent education?