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,...
by admin | Dec 20, 2024 | NHERI News, Research
Review by Douglas Pietersma, Ed.D. Editor, Home School Researcher Research Associate, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) Background The researchers Chris Forlin and Dianne Chambers (2024) conducted a quantitative study to address a gap in literature...
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 Administrator | Jul 7, 2021 | NHERI News
The Context One new study and a review of previous work offer new insights on abuse and neglect of children in public schools, private schools, and homeschooling. Various scholars and others have claimed that either homeschool children are at more risk than other...
by Administrator | May 26, 2021 | NHERI News
The Context The number of families practicing homeschooling has exploded during the past year. Recent data from the United States Census Bureau and several state governments show that homeschooling continued growing from spring of 2019 to spring of 2020. Then,...
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 admin | Nov 17, 2020 | NHERI News
Celebrating 30 Years of Research on Homeschooling Download a PDF of our 30th Anniversary Booklet Download Now! It’s NHERI’s 30th Anniversary! Thirty years ago some fore-thinkers and status-quo changers got together and founded the nonprofit National Home Education...
by Administrator | Oct 23, 2020 | NHERI News
by Seann Dikkers, Ph.D. Executive Director, Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators (MACHE) An article entitled “Home-schooled kids costing local boards $”recently posted (Oct 20, 2020).[i] The piece was sent to me by a friend as another example of a curious...
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...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Aug 21, 2020 | NHERI News
Big Growth in Homeschooling Indicated This “School Year” The Context for Big Growth in Homeschooling Indicated Homeschooling has been gradually and notably growing for decades, but new evidence points to big growth in homeschooling being indicated for this “school...
