by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 16, 2025 | NHERI News
A review by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. Consider donating/supporting NHERI today It is an important and emotional topic and the title is catchy but this paper in a scholarly journal adds close to nothing to the relevant body of scientific knowledge. Further, the authors...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Feb 18, 2025 | Research
What if you were told that adults who were long-term homeschooled (a) now live in lower income households than do the non-homeschooled and (b) that the long-termed homeschooled value hard work more than do the non-homeschooled? Or, that the long-term homeschooled (a)...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 23, 2024 | Research
Background There have been numerous attempts to determine the reasons why parents choose to home educate their children. A doctoral dissertation by Annora E. Gilliss contributes to the body of literature on this topic and attempts to answer this question utilizing an...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jun 6, 2024 | Research
Context Various news and opinion media outlets occasionally claim that more government control (regulation) over private homeschooling would reduce the amount of child abuse, neglect, and murder (or fatalities) that occurs in the United...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 25, 2024 | Research
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute April 25, 2024 Download PDF Abstract The School Choice discussion is about whether and how to expand the tax-funded education welfare system, including to private schools and homeschools. This article...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Mar 14, 2024 | Research
A Review of a study by Jillene Seiver and Elisa Pope Context Consider donating/supporting NHERI today After roughly 40 years into the modern homeschool movement in the United States, scholars, friends of homeschool families, and the general...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Feb 13, 2024 | Research
A Review of a study by Jillene Seiver and Elisa Pope Context Consider donating/supporting NHERI...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | May 4, 2023 | Research
Please consider donating/supporting NHERI today Context Many new terms about education and schooling have been tossed around during the past five years: micro schools, pods, charter school at home, online schooling, and virtual schooling, and the list continues to...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2023 | Research
Context Professor Elizabeth Bartholet called for a ban of homeschooling just three years ago (2020). She called it a presumptive ban and based her proposed government regime on several claims regarding the negative impact and harm of homeschooling. The professor...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 30, 2023 | NHERI News
Home School Researcher Volume 38, No. 2, 2022, p. 1-7 PDF click here (All tables and graphs are available in the PDF.) Susan L. Iliff Associate Professor, Department...
