by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 4
The Washington Homeschool Research Project is a cooperative and volunteer effort on the part of 13 individuals (including homeschoolers and several public school educators) to gather objective information about Washington’s homeschoolers1 and to make that...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 3
The home as the location of a child’s formal education is not a new phenomenon. According to Whitehead and Bird (1984), home schooling was once considered the primary form of education in America. In fact, many of this country’s earliest leaders and...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 3
Although the number of children being home schooled has increased dramatically in the last twenty years (Lines, 1987; Ray, 1988), research on home schooling is in its infancy, with virtually all of the studies having been completed in the past ten years, and most...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 2
Parents who actively read and write with their children engage in unique interactions that nurture a specialized kind of family learning process. Both parents and children together have the opportunity to further their own literacy growth, which involves the...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 2
The last two decades have ushered in a revival of what was once one of America’s typical forms of education. More and more parents are adopting home schooling as a means for rearing and educating their children. Although not a totally new nor unusual...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 1
There is a growing trend throughout the country for parents to educate their children at home. Although the reasons are varied, most of these parents claim their interest in home education is based on religious views. The issue from both the legal and the...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 1
The New Christian Right home schooling movement is one piece of a broad network of politically active New Christian Right organizations. In this essay, family motivations for home schooling are considered in a resource mobilization context. The resource...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 4
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. The...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 4
Consternation over the level of educational quality in the United States may now have reached its highest level. On the U.S. Department of Education’s “wall charts,” in state legislatures, in local newspapers, in national magazines, on...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 3
Research has consistently suggested that parents who teach their children at home are not a monolithic group, but a diverse and multi‑faceted group who establish home schools for a variety of reasons. For instance, Gustavson (1981) suggests socio‑relational...
