This study used a qualitative research approach to explore one family’s experiences as readers and writers in a home school setting. Through participant observation, the researcher experienced the family’s literacy growth and language environment from an involved, interactive position.
Elizabeth B. Treat, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1990, p. 9-19
The revival of home schooling within this context causes one to consider and ponder a number of questions.
Mark A. Resetar, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1990, p. 1-7
The purpose of this research was to examine home instruction from a national perspective.
Sybil Yastrow, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1990, p. 13-18
In this essay, family motivations for home schooling are considered in a resource mobilization context.
Vernon L. Bates, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1990, p. 1-11
Twenty years ago I learned a new synonym for the word frustration: dyslexia. I first saw the term in a report by a pediatrician, who cited dyslexia as an explanation for the fact that our youngest daughter Lisa, could not learn to read.
Norma D. Fuller, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1989, p.7-10
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This article has two purposes. First, a brief analysis of the changing meaning of educational quality is provided. Second, several ideas related to the measurement of educational quality will be presented to illustrate the effect of the revised definition of educational quality on home school families, home school policy, and the law.
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The purpose of this study was to collect information about the determinants of grades 3 to 8 students’ behavior with respect to laboratory and non-laboratory science learning activitie.
Brian D. Ray, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1989, p. 1-11
The purpose of this project was to establish clear, specified reasons why parents in the Chattanooga, Tennessee vicinity home educate their children..
Judy R. Howell, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1989, p. 11-14
The increasing prevalence of home schooling has provided educators with a number of vexing legal issues regarding, for example, the conflict between parents’ religious rights and a state’s educational interest.
Robert E. Carlson and Karin K. Coyle, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1989, p. 1-10