by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 3
The Chicago in which I grew up was a city of neighborhoods. My neighborhood was an area of blue collar, immigrant traditions, isolated by industry, railroads, a drainage canal, and busy arterial streets. It was located in the depths of...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 3
Mona Maarse Delahooke (1986) attempted to determine how home schooled and one group (private) of conventionally schooled children compared in terms of social/emotional adjustment and academic achievement. This was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation research...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 2
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Since I began my doctoral studies in 1984, I have been extremely interested in the sociology of education and have focused on this area in both teaching and...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 2
By its very definition, an overview purports to provide a general survey of the topic in hand. As such, Patricia Lines provides a very credible and seemingly objective view of the home schooling movement. Because of the nature of an overview there is an...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 2
PRESENTING: SAM B. PEAVEY I was born and reared in Iowa. After high school in Des Moines, I worked on a railroad maintenance crew (section gang) until I accumulated sufficient funds...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 2
Home educators, conventional educators, and school officials are offered substantive information for contemplation in Jane Van Galen’s 1986 Ph.D. dissertation “Schooling in private: A study of home education•. Van Galen employed the qualitative...
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by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 1
Purpose “The purpose of this study was to give a description of the curricula and methods used in the home school of home educators and evaluate by means of case studies the effects of home education upon those included in the study” (p. 1). Within this...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 1
PRESENTING: BEVERLY SCHEMMER Editor’s Note: Beverly Schemmer completed her Ed.D. dissertation, Case studies of four families engaged in home education, at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana in July of 1985. She is now principal at the North...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1987 | Volume 03, Issue 1
Jon Wartes has presented another piece of well-executed and reported research. The methodology is clearly explained in the report and he carefully presented considerations of sampling error in a special section entitled “For other researchers — some information about...
