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...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Sep 15, 2022 | Research
Copyright © 2022 by Brian D. Ray Abstract The purpose of this study is to estimate the number of homeschool students in the United States during the 2021-2022 academic school year. The estimate is derived by establishing the size of the nationwide school-age...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Aug 11, 2022 | Research
Context Homeschooling has grown phenomenally during the past 30 years around the world, and especially during the past two years. For example, the number of home-educated children in grades K-12 in the United States grew from an estimated 2.65 million during 2019-2020...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Mar 18, 2022 | Research
Homeschool Abuse and Neglect Research: How Many Homeschooled Kids Are Abused? Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute July 11, 2025 (first edition, March 18, 2022) While many positive research findings have been associated with homeschooling,...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Mar 16, 2022 | Research
Wretchedly, news stories, anecdotes, and research regarding school teachers and other school personnel doing evil things to students and children have become too common in the United States.[i],[ii] News stories, government data, and research reports on parents...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Feb 2, 2022 | Research
Introduction A fascinating study just came out. Scholars Ying Chen, Christina Hinton, and Tyler VanderWeele (2021) published their work, “School types in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in young adulthood: An outcome-wide analysis.” In it, they...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Sep 9, 2021 | Research
Copyright © by National Home Education Research Institute [Also, see the new population size estimate for 2021-2022] Abstract The purpose of this study is to estimate the number of homeschool students in the United States during the 2020-2021 academic school year. The...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Mar 23, 2021 | NHERI News
The Context More empirical evidence shows that homeschooling doubled in the United States during the government pandemic lockdowns. The growth occurred from the 2019-2020 institutional school year to the 2020-2021 year, to perhaps as many as 5 million school-age...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Sep 9, 2020 | NHERI News
Comparing Two Forms of Public Schooling: What Relevance to Homeschooling? The Context A recently published study compared the academic achievement of government-run public correspondence school students and government-run public conventional school students in Alaska...
