by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
John Holt summarizes the three metaphors which govern and dominate organized education in the U.S. The article is “Why Teachers Fail” in The Education Digest, December 1984, p.58-60, which is a condensed version of an article in The Progressive, XLVIII (April 1984),...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
I am a doctoral student in the Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For several years I have been casually following developments in home education. Expanding on this interest, I wrote several papers on home schooling...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
There are no “cure-all” programs in the schools today for children with behavior disorders. Some behavior problems may owe their very existence to the fact that there is such a thing as formal education (Cullinan, Epstein, and Lloyd, 1983). Schools are geared toward...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 2
I am an Anthropology doctoral candidate currently doing research in an unincorporated rural community in Washington State. In late June I will have been here a year. My primary interest focuses on creating an ethnography of one example of the “rural renaissance.”...
