by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1991 | Volume 07, Issue 3
Paul Kitchen School of Education Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI 49104 Keywords: Homeschooling, home schooling, home education, socialization. IN THE PAST DECADE, what had begun as a trickle of parents pulling their children out of traditional schools and...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1991 | Volume 07, Issue 3
Norma S. Hedin Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Ft. Worth, Texas 76122 Keywords: Homeschooling, home schooling, home education, religion, Baptist. A GROWING NUMBER of parents are choosing home schooling over public or private school education (Holt, 1983, p....
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1991 | Volume 07, Issue 2
This study is a naturalistic inquiry into the concerns and functions of home schooling parent support groups in Kansas as determined by home schooling parent support group leaders. It provides an analysis of characteristics found in common among the various autonomous...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1991 | Volume 07, Issue 1
Since the State of Virginia began to keep records in 1984, the number of children involved in home schooling grew from 504 (1984-85) to 2,934 (1989-90), an increase of 482% (Virginia Department of Education, 1984-1989). There have been studies that have provided a...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1991 | Volume 07, Issue 1
Mary E. Hood Westminster, Maryland Home School Researcher Vol. 7, No. 1, 1991, p. 1-8 This was an historical-descriptive study. Its purpose was to...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 4
Even though a number of studies of homeschool1 achievement have found that home educated students score as high or higher than their school educated counterparts, the “perfect” study of homeschool achievement does not exist, could not exist, and should not...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 4
The Washington Homeschool Research Project is a cooperative and volunteer effort on the part of 13 individuals (including homeschoolers and several public school educators) to gather objective information about Washington’s homeschoolers1 and to make that...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 3
The home as the location of a child’s formal education is not a new phenomenon. According to Whitehead and Bird (1984), home schooling was once considered the primary form of education in America. In fact, many of this country’s earliest leaders and...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 3
Although the number of children being home schooled has increased dramatically in the last twenty years (Lines, 1987; Ray, 1988), research on home schooling is in its infancy, with virtually all of the studies having been completed in the past ten years, and most...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 2
Parents who actively read and write with their children engage in unique interactions that nurture a specialized kind of family learning process. Both parents and children together have the opportunity to further their own literacy growth, which involves the...
