by admin | Nov 14, 2025 | NHERI News
What Research Says About Homeschooling and Success, or not, in Adulthood The key findings are as follow: 50% of peer-reviewed studies on success into adulthood (including college) show adults who were home educated succeed and perform statistically significantly...
by admin | Nov 14, 2025 | NHERI News
What the Research Says About Homeschooling and the Socialization of Children The key findings are as follow: Research findings on homeschooling show that the home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological...
by admin | Nov 14, 2025 | NHERI News
What Research Says About Homeschooling and Academic Achievement Learner Outcomes Key Points: 63% of peer-reviewed studies on academic achievement show homeschool students perform statistically significantly better than those in institutional schools (Ray, 2017, 2023)....
by admin | Nov 13, 2025 | NHERI News
Public School, Private School, and Homeschool Child Abuse, Neglect, and Fatalities Key Points 10% to 12% of public and private school children are victims of educator sexual misconduct during grades K-12.[1] This would suggest about 5,460,000 of school-age children in...
by Douglas Pietersma | Nov 11, 2025 | NHERI News
Background The extant literature on home education often focuses on the outcomes of the home educated student or the reason why families chose home education, but little is focused on the person of the home educating parent. In this dissertation, Gina Reynolds...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Sep 15, 2025 | NHERI News, Research
Key Points 10% to 12% of public and private school children are victims of educator sexual misconduct during grades K-12.[1] This would suggest about 5,460,000 of school-age children in 2022-23[2] would be victims of school employees by grade 12. In addition, there...
by admin | Aug 5, 2025 | NHERI News
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) Brian D. Ray presented this paper for the first time at the International School Choice and Reform Conference ISCRC held during January 16-20, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Abstract This...
by Douglas Pietersma | Jun 11, 2025 | NHERI News
by Douglas Pietersma, Ed.D. Background The authors from the University of Doha in Doha, Qatar (Eldeeb, Diab, Yusr, & Qadhi, 2024) set out to review multiple studies dealing with home education. Their intent was to conduct a meta-analysis of existing studies to...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 16, 2025 | NHERI News
A review by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. Consider donating/supporting NHERI today It is an important and emotional topic and the title is catchy but this paper in a scholarly journal adds close to nothing to the relevant body of scientific knowledge. Further, the authors...
by admin | Dec 20, 2024 | NHERI News
Here are some tried and true ways to explore homeschooling and to get started at it, or keep going at it with your children. The groups below will help you find support in your state and local area, decide how to choose an approach and philosophy to home education,...
