What are the admissions requirements, and how do they compare, of 210 selected four year public and private universities in the United States with respect to applicants who have been home schooled? Leslie F. Barnebey pursued this question in her Ed.D....
Mary Anne Pitman (1986) has written the most sweeping review of the literature on home education to date. Since most home school researchers will already be familiar with many of the works cited in the article, I will briefly summarize the content of the review...
The purpose of this study was to determine the philosophical purpose, the curricular activities, the methods of evaluation, and the preference for public school services of the home schoolers of Central Kentucky. In Kentucky, the first step has been taken in the...
Parental interest in home schooling has grown rapidly in the past decade. Consequent to this increased interest, judicial and legislative activity has mushroomed. State law regulating home schools is now in a constant flux. One negative result has...
The Chicago in which I grew up was a city of neighborhoods. My neighborhood was an area of blue collar, immigrant traditions, isolated by industry, railroads, a drainage canal, and busy arterial streets. It was located in the depths of...
Mona Maarse Delahooke (1986) attempted to determine how home schooled and one group (private) of conventionally schooled children compared in terms of social/emotional adjustment and academic achievement. This was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation research...
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Since I began my doctoral studies in 1984, I have been extremely interested in the sociology of education and have focused on this area in both teaching and...
By its very definition, an overview purports to provide a general survey of the topic in hand. As such, Patricia Lines provides a very credible and seemingly objective view of the home schooling movement. Because of the nature of an overview there is an...
PRESENTING: SAM B. PEAVEY I was born and reared in Iowa. After high school in Des Moines, I worked on a railroad maintenance crew (section gang) until I accumulated sufficient funds...
Home educators, conventional educators, and school officials are offered substantive information for contemplation in Jane Van Galen’s 1986 Ph.D. dissertation “Schooling in private: A study of home education•. Van Galen employed the qualitative...
