by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 2
Introduction In America today, thousands of children are meeting state compulsory education requirements at home instead of in school. In 1987, 29 states explicitly permitted instruction at...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 1
There was a significant amount of press coverage given to the issue of home schools in 1984 as the Tennessee legislature struggled with a bill that would allow parents to educate their children at home. As could be expected, it caused concern on the part of...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 1
If what the world needed in the sixties seemed to be “love, more love,” what many clearly believe it needs in the eighties and beyond is leadership, more leadership. Marano (1985), Assistant Director of Student Activities for the National Association...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 4
Introduction In Kotzehu, Alaska, 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle, students do math and English at midnight. In Booneville, California, they read what they choose at a mountaintop ranch,...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 4
The popularity of home schooling over the past several years has prompted many states to provide guidelines for this alternative to traditional education. Thirty-one states now have adopted home-school statutes or regulations. Many other states have...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 3
In the March 1988 issue of the Home School Researcher (Mayberry, 1988), I discussed the findings of the 1987‑1988 Oregon Home School Survey. In that article I suggested that home schoolers are not a monolithic group, rather they are a diverse group that...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 3
Much of the literature on home education centers either on reasons why parents should choose this form of education over the conventional classroom or the resource materials available to parents of home educated children (Pitman, 1986; Lines, 1987). However,...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 2
Goals This project was designed to explore the motivations and goals of parents who are home schooling their children. Because the home schooling movement is reported to be growing at an...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 2
Introduction Two new reports were released in March 1988 from the Washington Homeschool Research Project. The first, Report from the 1987 Washington homeschool testing, contains a detailed...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 1
Home schooling has grown rapidly in the United States over the last decade or so. Estimates of home school populations range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, with some in excess of one million (Moore, 1985; Holt, 1984). Indications are that...
