By Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute July 23, 2026 When podcasters Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan recently attacked home-educating parents and their children as stupid and selfish, they offered prejudice in place of evidence (see here)....
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What Research Says About Homeschooling and Success, or not, in Adulthood The key findings are as follow: 50% of peer-reviewed studies on success into adulthood (including college) show adults who were home educated succeed and perform statistically significantly...
What the Research Says About Homeschooling and the Socialization of Children The key findings are as follow: Research findings on homeschooling show that the home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological...
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) Brian D. Ray presented this paper for the first time at the International School Choice and Reform Conference ISCRC held during January 16-20, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Abstract This...
by Douglas Pietersma, Ed.D. Background The authors from the University of Doha in Doha, Qatar (Eldeeb, Diab, Yusr, & Qadhi, 2024) set out to review multiple studies dealing with home education. Their intent was to conduct a meta-analysis of existing studies to...
Homeschool Abuse and Neglect Research: How Many Homeschooled Kids Are Abused? Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute July 11, 2025 (first edition, March 18, 2022) While many positive research findings have been associated with homeschooling,...
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...
Comparing Two Forms of Public Schooling: What Relevance to Homeschooling? The Context A recently published study compared the academic achievement of government-run public correspondence school students and government-run public conventional school students in Alaska...
