Home School Researcher, Volume 36 No. 4, 2021*, p. 1-7, (* This issue was originally scheduled to be published in 2020.) Jillene Grover Seiver and Elisa A. Pope Department of Psychology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, jseiver@ewu.edu Abstract A...
Introduction A fascinating study just came out. Scholars Ying Chen, Christina Hinton, and Tyler VanderWeele (2021) published their work, “School types in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in young adulthood: An outcome-wide analysis.” In it, they...
Home School Researcher, Volume 36, No. 3, 2021*, p. 1-5 (* This issue was originally scheduled to be published in 2020.) Zena Tredinnick-Kirby Pennsylvania State University, zmk4@psu.edu PDF download Abstract The discourse of feminism, modern homeschooling, and an...
The Context One new study and a review of previous work offer new insights on abuse and neglect of children in public schools, private schools, and homeschooling. Various scholars and others have claimed that either homeschool children are at more risk than other...
The Context The number of families practicing homeschooling has exploded during the past year. Recent data from the United States Census Bureau and several state governments show that homeschooling continued growing from spring of 2019 to spring of 2020. Then,...
The Context More empirical evidence shows that homeschooling doubled in the United States during the government pandemic lockdowns. The growth occurred from the 2019-2020 institutional school year to the 2020-2021 year, to perhaps as many as 5 million school-age...
Home School Researcher, Volume 36, No. 1, 2020, p. 1-10 PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1,[1] Rebecca Filipek North Dakota, refilipek@gmail.com PDF download Abstract Homeschool teachers and mothers are thoroughly invested in the moral formation of their...
Home School Researcher, Volume 35, No. 4, 2020, p. 1-4 PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1,[1] A Review of the Book Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice by James Dwyer and Shawn Peters Angela R. Watson A Senior Research Fellow, Johns...
by Seann Dikkers, Ph.D. Executive Director, Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators (MACHE) An article entitled “Home-schooled kids costing local boards $”recently posted (Oct 20, 2020).[i] The piece was sent to me by a friend as another example of a curious...