by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Apr 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 2
The home schooling movement appears to be in an upward trend in America. It has arisen to the notice of parents, educators, legislatures, and judicial systems. Legitimate questions have been raised regarding the home school. Many of the answers, however, have been...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 1
The Hewitt Research Foundation presented its “Home Based Leadership Conference” on February 17, 1986 at the Hyatt Hotel in Princeton, New Jersey. It was a day-long event which included talks, panel discussions, question-answer sessions, and displays by curriculum...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 1
“Homes as schools” is the title of chapter eleven in the publication Choices in Schools: What’s Ahead and What to Do by Jack McCurdy (National School Public Relations Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Suite 201, Arlington, VA 22209, 1985, 57 p.). It is the result of the...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jan 10, 1986 | Volume 02, Issue 1
My interest in home schooling dates back to childhood days. My parents decided to home school their children as a matter of conviction. They believed that the home was the most ideal environment for fostering creativity, inquiry, and practical learning. ...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 4
Moore gives a succinct summary of what historians and educational researchers have to say about how soon children should enter formal schools. His conclusion is that he finds no “replicable research suggesting that normal children should be schooled before age 8”...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 4
The purpose of the study was to profile the Alaska home student and family. It focused on Centralized Clorrespondence Study (CC/S) enrollees whose names were available in the CC/S directory. Adult and student questionnaires designed to elicit profile data were mailed...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Oct 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 4
In the summer of 1985 I completed my Master’s degree in public school administration; and in September joined the Anchorage School District as an administrative intern. In that job I function much like an assistant principal in a junior high school of over one...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 3
My interest in home education derives from my Christian commitments and my work as a teacher in public and private schools. I joined Word Book Club in 1982 to try to balance my readings in secular education theory (East Texas State University) with a biblical world...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 3
The fact that there are so very few twentieth-century American families educating their children at home might be understood as an indication that unschooling,” as some call it, is a nonissue in a society of mass institutions. But these families have touched a raw...
by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 10, 1985 | Volume 01, Issue 3
I am a doctoral student in the Foundations of Education. Foundations includes such fields as history of education, philosophy of education, history of childhood, anthropological studies of education, and religious studies of education. Foundations is a synthetic...
