How to Get Started Homeschooling and to Keep Up with Important News in the Home-Education World

by admin | Dec 20, 2024 | NHERI News

Here are some tried and true ways to explore homeschooling and to get started at it, or keep going at it with your children. The groups below will help you find support in your state and local area, decide how to choose an approach and philosophy to home education,...

Centering the Lived Experiences of Rural Black Homeschool Families

by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | Research

A Journal Article by Cheryl Fields-Smith and Timberly L. Baker – Summary and Comments Background Fields-Smith and Baker (2023) identify a significant gap in the existing literature by focusing on the intersectionality of home education, Black families, and rural...

Would More State Control Over Homeschooling Reduce Child Abuse, Neglect, and Murder?

by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jun 6, 2024 | Research

Context                            Various news and opinion media outlets occasionally claim that more government control (regulation) over private homeschooling would reduce the amount of child abuse, neglect, and murder (or fatalities) that occurs in the United...

Defining Home Education in Contrast to Schooling Paradigms

by Administrator | Mar 25, 2024 | Home School Researcher, Research, Volume 38, Issue 4

PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments 1 Home School Researcher, Volume 38 No. 4, 2024, p. 13-18 Douglas J. Pietersma  Editor, Home School Researcher, hsreditor@nheri.org Abstract In response the changing dynamics in the landscape of schooling and education, the need...

Have a Gameplan: A Study of Homeschooler Anticipatory Memorable Messages About the College Choice

by Administrator | Mar 25, 2024 | Home School Researcher, Research, Volume 38, Issue 3

Home School Researcher, Volume 38, No. 3, 2023, p. 1-12 Gina Reynolds Assistant Professor, Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, reyno183@purdue.edu Abstract Homeschooling in the United States provides many children with a unique educational background that...

The Kids Are Alright: Part 2

by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Mar 14, 2024 | Research

A Review of a study by Jillene Seiver and Elisa Pope Context                             Consider donating/supporting NHERI today After roughly 40 years into the modern homeschool movement in the United States, scholars, friends of homeschool families, and the general...

Homeschooling Can Get Hurt if Definitions Do Not Matter

by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | May 4, 2023 | Research

Please consider donating/supporting NHERI today Context Many new terms about education and schooling have been tossed around during the past five years: micro schools, pods, charter school at home, online schooling, and virtual schooling, and the list continues to...

Deciding Not to School Children: A Socio-Economic Profiling of Education Without School in Colombia

by Administrator | Oct 13, 2022 | Home School Researcher, Volume 36, Issue 2

Home School Researcher       Volume 36 No. 2, 2022, p. 1-10 PDF click here Erwin Fabián García López Coordinator, Action Research Initiative on Alternative Education, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia,...

How Many Homeschool Students are there in the United States during the 2021-2022 School Year?

by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Sep 15, 2022 | Research

Copyright © 2022 by Brian D. Ray Abstract The purpose of this study is to estimate the number of homeschool students in the United States during the 2021-2022 academic school year. The estimate is derived by establishing the size of the nationwide school-age...

Does Homeschooling Improve Social Competencies and Creative Thinking among Children?

by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Aug 11, 2022 | Research

Context Homeschooling has grown phenomenally during the past 30 years around the world, and especially during the past two years. For example, the number of home-educated children in grades K-12 in the United States grew from an estimated 2.65 million during 2019-2020...