Comments on Black Homeschoolers: Nowhere Left to Go PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA A well-recognized professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies, Michael Apple (2006), proclaimed a decade ago that homeschooling is, overall, bad for African American parents, their children, and society. […]
Sahar Almasoud Samantha R. Fowler Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Education and Interdisciplinary Studies, salmasoud2011@my.fit.edu Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate if there is any significant difference in the success of home-schooled and non-home-schooled students after a year of study at a private university in the Southeast United States. The […]
Comments on “Reconstituting the Right to Education” by Joshua E. Weishart PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments 1 Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA References to homeschooling are showing up in an increasing number of sometimes obscure places. For example, Weishart (2016) mentions homeschooling in two of his footnotes. The opening […]
Gregory M. Dempster Elliott Professor of Economics and Business, Hampden-Sydney College, GDempster@hsc.edu Abstract This research note represents an attempt to identify some of the major determinants of the decision to homeschool using a single, publicly available data set, the Parent and Family Involvement portion of the 2007 National Household Education Survey (NHES) conducted by […]
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1 Comments on “A Randomized Control Trial of the Effects of a Statewide Voluntary Prekindergarten Program on Children’s Skills and Behaviors through Third Grade” by Lipsey, Farran, and Hofer Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA For many decades, education experts, researchers, and policymakers have offered more […]
Sarah Pannone Wallace State Community College, sarahjeanneohman@hotmail.com Abstract The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the factors influencing homeschool curriculum choices. Within the study, three research questions were asked: 1) How do select home educators describe the factors that influence their curricular choices? 2) How do select home educators’ beliefs affect […]
Comments on “Are Homeschooled Adolescents Less Likely to Use Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs?” by Vaughn et al. [endnote 1] Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Many homeschooling parents have been prodded with this leading question: “Why do you want to shelter your child from the world so much?” Sheltering […]
Shaghayegh Setayesh and MingTsan Pierre Lu University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Shaghayegh.Setayesh1@utb.edu; MingTsan.Lu@utrgv.edu Abstract We all have heard or known of families who homeschool their children. We have our assumptions about why they choose homeschooling, and how they do it. In this study, two current homeschooled families with over one year of homeschooling […]
PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments [1] Comments on “Relationships of Parental Homeschooling Approaches Including Technology Integration” by Letitia Walters Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA The variety of topics related to homeschooling has clearly accelerated over the past decade. Letitia Walters’ (2015) new study, Relationships of parental homeschooling approaches including technology […]
Guillermo Montes Associate Professor, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York gmontes@sjfc.edu Abstract Although there is substantial research on homeschooling and its correlates, much of the research has used samples that are likely to suffer from self-selection biases (Kunzman & Gaither, 2013). In this article, we use […]