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USA’s Rising Homeschool Population: A Qualitative Phenomenology of Caregivers’ Rationalizations to Homeschool – Summary and Comments

USA’s Rising Homeschool Population: A Qualitative Phenomenology of Caregivers’ Rationalizations to Homeschool – Summary and Comments

by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. | Jul 23, 2024 | Research

Background There have been numerous attempts to determine the reasons why parents choose to home educate their children. A doctoral dissertation by Annora E. Gilliss contributes to the body of literature on this topic and attempts to answer this question utilizing an...

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...

Portals to Learning: A Case Study of Teacher Training for Literature and Project-based Learning

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

Home School Researcher, Volume 38, No. 4, 2024, p. 1-12 Seann M. Dikkers VP of Development, Portals, Saint Paul, MN, sdikkers@portalsacademy.com Mandy McRaith Data And Hub Support, Portals, Saint Paul, MN, info@portalsacademy.com Stephanie Dikkers Curriculum Designer,...

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...

Quantitative Insights into the Academic Outcomes of Homeschools from the Classic Learning Test

by Administrator | Dec 9, 2022 | Home School Researcher, Research, Volume 38, Issue 1

Home School Researcher         Volume 38, No. 1, 2022, p. 1-13 PDF click here Lisa M. Treleaven College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Houston Christian University, Houston, Texas, ltreleaven@hbu.edu Abstract Homeschools...

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...

Study on Child Abuse and Neglect and Homeschooling Dispels Conventionally Held Views

by Administrator | Aug 25, 2022 | Research

A new study on child abuse and neglect and homeschooling dispels conventionally held views. Scholars, policymakers, and special interest groups have had heated debates during the last few years regarding whether there is more abuse and neglect of public school,...
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