PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of “Home-Schooled Children are Thinner, Leaner, and Report Better Diets …”by Cardel et al. Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Keywords: home-schooled, health, diets, children...
The Most Private Private Education: Home Education in Australia Rebecca English Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia, r.english@qut.edu.au Abstract In Australia, the decision to home educate is...
The Peabody Journal of Education published an entire special issue on the topic of homeschooling on June 19, 2013. The guest editor of the issue is Dr. Brian Ray and the opening article is entitled, “Homeschooling Rising Into the Twenty-First Century: Editor’s...
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of Federal Government Report on Homeschool Growth, by Noel, Stark, and Redford Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Is it still growing? If so, at what rate? This is what a lot of...
Economic Impact of Home and Private Schooling on the Public Education System: Iowa as a Case Study Douglas P. Dotterweich Professor of Economics and Eastman Credit Union Fellow in the Department of Economics and Finance, East Tennessee State University,...
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 A Brief Review of Religion, volunteering, and educational setting: The effect of youth schooling type on civic engagement, by Hill and Den Dulk Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA...
Jennifer Rathmell Chiang Mai, Thailand, jen@rathmell.com1 Gail Collins Department of Education, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, glcollins@liberty.edu Abstract The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the stress that families incur when they...
If you are a homeschool advocate, you might want to say, “Homeschooling always causes all the positive things associated with the educational practice.” But are you also wanting to say, “Anything negative associated with a homeschooling family or group of families is...
Currently, the incidence of autism in the general population is reported to be 1 in 88 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). According to the 2010 Part B Child Count tables from the US Department of Education, the number of students, ages 6-21, receiving...
Joseph F. Murphy Frank W. Mayborn Chair & Associate Dean for Special Projects Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College Nashville, Tennessee, joseph.f.murphy@vanderbilt.edu Abstract In this article, the tremendous change in the homeschooling population over...
