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Dixie Dillon Lane

Nov 11, 2023

Audio and Video:

— “Deep Dive: Free-Range Kids and the Parental Compass.” Deep Dives with Public Discourse, the Witherspoon Institute, 25 June 2024.

— “The History and Future of Homeschooling with Dixie Dillon Lane,” Hearth Matters #19, TheHearthMatters.com, 7 May 2024.

E19 | The History and Future of Homeschooling with Dixie Dillon Lane

Dixie Dillon Lane, Ph. D, is a historian, writer and homeschooling mother of four, as well as an Associate Editor at Hearth & Field journal. In this episode, we discuss the homeschooling experience and why more American parents are opting out of the public school system to teach their children in the home-based classroom…

7 months ago · Hearth Matters

— “Out of the Gray: A Legal History Lesson on Homeschooling,” Homeschooling Talks #122, HSLDA.org (23 October 2023).

Written Interviews:

- With Nadya Williams, “Interview: Dixie Dillon Lane’s book, Skipping School, is under contract.” The Arena blog at Current (24 September 2024).

The Pietist Schoolman

Seeing Homeschooling from the Inside and Outside

While I’ve written appreciatively about public schools like those that have educated my wife and our children, I also appreciate the diversity of educational models available in this country. That includes homeschooling, which we used for our kids during my 2016 sabbatical and actually accounts…

2 months ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Chris Gehrz

"It's Never Just About the Food" (Part 1)

I reached out to Annelise Roberts and Dixie Dillon Lane a few weeks ago, inviting them to participate in a guest post on the topic of food and family. I was thrilled when they both said “yes” so I sent some preliminary questions their way—and then our first draft was fourteen pages long. All that to say, I will be splitting our conversation into two parts (today and next Monday) to ens…

9 months ago · Sara Dietz, Dixie Dillon Lane, and Annelise Roberts

Cultivating Clarity

Life Outside the Box: An Interview with Dr. Dixie Dillon Lane

Welcome to the first installment of a new series here, Life Outside the Box, where we celebrate living as whole people and not just a one-dimensional job title. The overwhelmingly positive response to my essay, Leaning (In and) Out, (Not) Having it All…

a year ago · Kerri

An Interview with Dixie Dillon Lane at “The Hollow”

Gloire de Dijon, Wikipedia Public Domain Today we are discussing homemaking and motherhood with Dr. Dixie Dillon Lane, who has so many wise things to say on real self-care, our society’s failure to support new mothers, homeschooling, and much more…

a year ago · 22 likes · 41 comments · Ivana Greco

Posts Featuring Dixie:

School of the Unconformed

Letters From the Unconformed

Peco and I are currently working on an in-depth article on the promises and perils of the Machine based on some recent encounters with a NASA researcher, a quantum physicist, and an Orthodox priest, among others. If you have not already done so, take a moment for our 60-second poll…

10 months ago · 75 likes · 40 comments · Ruth Gaskovski and Peco

How We Homeschool

Special Guest Edition: How we homeschooled today by Dixie Dillon Lane

Many of you will already be familiar with Dixie Dillon Lane ’s Substack, The Hollow. I only asked Dixie yesterday if she’d consider writing me a guest post, stressing that there was no rush and no deadline, and I woke up this morning to find she’d already sent it. And it’s so good that I wanted to get it out to you all asap…

a year ago · 13 likes · 12 comments · Catherine Oliver and Dixie Dillon Lane

School of the Unconformed

Open Thread: The Unmachined Coffee House

Note: For those of you who prefer to read off paper (as I do), I have added a pdf version of yesterday’s article (see link at top of post). If you have not had time to read it yet: Enjoy and discuss! “To begin with, we fully acknowledge that it is an oxymoron to meet online to discuss “unmachining…

a year ago · 40 likes · 94 comments · Ruth Gaskovski and Peco

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