by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 4
Moore gives a succinct summary of what historians and educational researchers have to say about how soon children should enter formal schools. His conclusion is that he finds no “replicable research suggesting that normal children should be schooled before age 8”...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 4
The purpose of the study was to profile the Alaska home student and family. It focused on Centralized Clorrespondence Study (CC/S) enrollees whose names were available in the CC/S directory. Adult and student questionnaires designed to elicit profile data were mailed...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 4
In the summer of 1985 I completed my Master’s degree in public school administration; and in September joined the Anchorage School District as an administrative intern. In that job I function much like an assistant principal in a junior high school of over one...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 3
My interest in home education derives from my Christian commitments and my work as a teacher in public and private schools. I joined Word Book Club in 1982 to try to balance my readings in secular education theory (East Texas State University) with a biblical world...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 3
The fact that there are so very few twentieth-century American families educating their children at home might be understood as an indication that unschooling,” as some call it, is a nonissue in a society of mass institutions. But these families have touched a raw...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 3
I am a doctoral student in the Foundations of Education. Foundations includes such fields as history of education, philosophy of education, history of childhood, anthropological studies of education, and religious studies of education. Foundations is a synthetic...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
John Holt summarizes the three metaphors which govern and dominate organized education in the U.S. The article is “Why Teachers Fail” in The Education Digest, December 1984, p.58-60, which is a condensed version of an article in The Progressive, XLVIII (April 1984),...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
I am a doctoral student in the Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For several years I have been casually following developments in home education. Expanding on this interest, I wrote several papers on home schooling...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
There are no “cure-all” programs in the schools today for children with behavior disorders. Some behavior problems may owe their very existence to the fact that there is such a thing as formal education (Cullinan, Epstein, and Lloyd, 1983). Schools are geared toward...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
I am an Anthropology doctoral candidate currently doing research in an unincorporated rural community in Washington State. In late June I will have been here a year. My primary interest focuses on creating an ethnography of one example of the “rural renaissance.”...
