by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 4
The popularity of home schooling over the past several years has prompted many states to provide guidelines for this alternative to traditional education. Thirty-one states now have adopted home-school statutes or regulations. Many other states have...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 3
In the March 1988 issue of the Home School Researcher (Mayberry, 1988), I discussed the findings of the 1987‑1988 Oregon Home School Survey. In that article I suggested that home schoolers are not a monolithic group, rather they are a diverse group that...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 3
Much of the literature on home education centers either on reasons why parents should choose this form of education over the conventional classroom or the resource materials available to parents of home educated children (Pitman, 1986; Lines, 1987). However,...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 2
Goals This project was designed to explore the motivations and goals of parents who are home schooling their children. Because the home schooling movement is reported to be growing at an...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 2
Introduction Two new reports were released in March 1988 from the Washington Homeschool Research Project. The first, Report from the 1987 Washington homeschool testing, contains a detailed...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 1
Home schooling has grown rapidly in the United States over the last decade or so. Estimates of home school populations range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, with some in excess of one million (Moore, 1985; Holt, 1984). Indications are that...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1988 | Volume 04, Issue 1
The 1987-88 Oregon home school survey examines a growing group of diverse people who have posed a formal challenge to the public institution of schooling. The goals of this study are threefold. First, results from a state-wide Oregon survey and follow-up...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 4
What are the admissions requirements, and how do they compare, of 210 selected four year public and private universities in the United States with respect to applicants who have been home schooled? Leslie F. Barnebey pursued this question in her Ed.D....
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 4
Mary Anne Pitman (1986) has written the most sweeping review of the literature on home education to date. Since most home school researchers will already be familiar with many of the works cited in the article, I will briefly summarize the content of the review...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 4
The purpose of this study was to determine the philosophical purpose, the curricular activities, the methods of evaluation, and the preference for public school services of the home schoolers of Central Kentucky. In Kentucky, the first step has been taken in the...
