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...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 1
The 1987-88 Oregon home school survey examines a growing group of diverse people who have posed a formal challenge to the public institution of schooling. The goals of this study are threefold. First, results from a state-wide Oregon survey and follow-up...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 4
What are the admissions requirements, and how do they compare, of 210 selected four year public and private universities in the United States with respect to applicants who have been home schooled? Leslie F. Barnebey pursued this question in her Ed.D....
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 4
Mary Anne Pitman (1986) has written the most sweeping review of the literature on home education to date. Since most home school researchers will already be familiar with many of the works cited in the article, I will briefly summarize the content of the review...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 4
The purpose of this study was to determine the philosophical purpose, the curricular activities, the methods of evaluation, and the preference for public school services of the home schoolers of Central Kentucky. In Kentucky, the first step has been taken in the...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 3
Parental interest in home schooling has grown rapidly in the past decade. Consequent to this increased interest, judicial and legislative activity has mushroomed. State law regulating home schools is now in a constant flux. One negative result has...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 3
The Chicago in which I grew up was a city of neighborhoods. My neighborhood was an area of blue collar, immigrant traditions, isolated by industry, railroads, a drainage canal, and busy arterial streets. It was located in the depths of...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 3
Mona Maarse Delahooke (1986) attempted to determine how home schooled and one group (private) of conventionally schooled children compared in terms of social/emotional adjustment and academic achievement. This was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation research...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 2
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Since I began my doctoral studies in 1984, I have been extremely interested in the sociology of education and have focused on this area in both teaching and...
