by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1990 | Volume 06, Issue 1
The New Christian Right home schooling movement is one piece of a broad network of politically active New Christian Right organizations. In this essay, family motivations for home schooling are considered in a resource mobilization context. The resource...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 4
Twenty years ago I learned a new synonym for the word frustration: dyslexia. I first saw the term in a report by a pediatrician, who cited dyslexia as an explanation for the fact that our youngest daughter Lisa, could not learn to read. The...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 4
Consternation over the level of educational quality in the United States may now have reached its highest level. On the U.S. Department of Education’s “wall charts,” in state legislatures, in local newspapers, in national magazines, on...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 3
Research has consistently suggested that parents who teach their children at home are not a monolithic group, but a diverse and multi‑faceted group who establish home schools for a variety of reasons. For instance, Gustavson (1981) suggests socio‑relational...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 3
The purpose of this study was to collect information about the determinants of grades 3 to 8 students’ behavior with respect to laboratory and non-laboratory science learning activities. A...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 2
Purpose and HypothesisThe purpose of this project was to establish clear, specified reasons why parents in the Chattanooga, Tennessee vicinity home educate their children. It was hypothesized that home school parent/teachers desire to effectively develop their...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 2
Introduction In America today, thousands of children are meeting state compulsory education requirements at home instead of in school. In 1987, 29 states explicitly permitted instruction at...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 1
There was a significant amount of press coverage given to the issue of home schools in 1984 as the Tennessee legislature struggled with a bill that would allow parents to educate their children at home. As could be expected, it caused concern on the part of...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1989 | Volume 05, Issue 1
If what the world needed in the sixties seemed to be “love, more love,” what many clearly believe it needs in the eighties and beyond is leadership, more leadership. Marano (1985), Assistant Director of Student Activities for the National Association...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 4
Introduction In Kotzehu, Alaska, 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle, students do math and English at midnight. In Booneville, California, they read what they choose at a mountaintop ranch,...
