The purpose of this study was to give a description of the curricula and methods used in the home school of home educators and evaluate by means of case studies the effects of home education upon those included in the study.
Brian D. Ray, HSR Volume 3 Number 1, March 1987
PRESENTING: BEVERLY SCHEMMER.
Beverly Schemmer, HSR Volume 3 Number 1, March 1987
Jon Wartes has presented another piece of well-executed and reported research.
Brian D. Ray, HSR Volume 3 Number 1, March 1987
The purpose of this project was to provide (a) base line information about the achievement levels of Washington home schoolers and (b) descriptive information about those who choose this educational option.
Jon Wartes, HSR Volume 3 Number 1, March 1987
Presents a Home School researcher, HSR Volume 2 Number 4, December 1986
The purpose of Rose’s research “… was to determine why parents/guardians have removed their child/children from either the public or private schools in order to instruct them at a place other than school (home instruction)” (p. 106) and to determine the attitudes and responses of affected school districts toward these home schoolers?
Brian Ray, HSR Volume 2 Number 4, December 1986
PRESENTING: ALAN B. ROSE
ALAN B. ROSE, HSR Volume 2 Number 4, December 1986
Tizard, Hughes, Pinkerton, and Carmichael (1982) were interested in four-year-olds as they compared adults’ cognitive demands on girls at home and at nursery school. The two treatments for each girl were being at nursery school with a teacher(s) in the morning and at home with her mother in the afternoon.
Brian Ray, HSR Volume 2 Number 3, September 1986
Shepherd carefully worked his way through several topics regarding the home schooling movement: (1) the dilemma today, (2) how/why the movement came about, (3) religious liberty, (4) home schooling in Texas, (5) dimensions of the controversy in the 70s and 80s, (6) home schooling’s future, and (7) whether home schooling is an acceptable alternative to conventional schooling.
Brian Ray, HSR Volume 2 Number 3, September 1986
THE HOME SCHOOLING MOVEMENT: AN EMERGING CONFLICT IN AMERICAN EDUCATION (an abstract)
This paper is a narrative of various activities in the American home schooling movement focusing on the period from the 1970s to the present.
Michael Steven Shepherd, HSR Volume 2 Number 3, September 1986