Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream, 2nd Edition

the Templeton Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Claudia was the founding Managing Director of The Fraser Institute, Ontario Office (2003-2008), and founded and directed the Institute's department of education policy research (1999-2008). She is the co-author of many education studies including Low Incomes, High Standards: Can private schools make a difference for low income families? (2008), Why Canadian Education Isn't Improving (2006), The Canadian Education Freedom Index (2003), the editor of Can the Market Save Our Schools (2001), and the author of The Case for School Choice: Models from the United States, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden (1999). She founded and hosts the institute's popular cocktail series, Behind the Spin: Fraser @ The Fifth , and its new dinner series, DIALOGUES . As the director of education policy, she was a frequent media commentator on education issues for a decade and her articles appeared in newspapers across Canada. She has a BA in English from Amherst College in Massachusetts, and an MA and B.Ed from the University of Toronto. Ms Hepburn was named one of Canada's Ten Most Inspiring Women of 2006 and one of the 2008 Top 25 Canadian Women of the Year by the Women's Post.

a research organization based in Washington, DC. Mr Basham previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, where he is currently an Adjunct Scholar. Prior to joining Cato, he served as the Director of the Social Affairs Centre at The Fraser Institute. He has written and edited books, scholarly articles, and studies on a variety of domestic and foreign-policy topics, including campaign finance, democratization, education reform, obesity, political marketing, and the regulation of risk. A frequent media commentator, his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, Australian Financial Review, National Post, and Globe & Mail. Mr Basham earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Carleton University, the University of Houston, and Cambridge University, respectively.

three books, 38 articles, and several chapters in edited books in his primary teaching and research fields of K-12 school reform, the environment, natural resource management, urban and regional economics, and public choice. Dr. Merrifield received a B. S. in natural resource management from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1977, a M. A. in economic geography from the University of Illinois in 1979 and a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Wyoming in 1984.