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On Blacks Choosing Home-Based Education

Brian D. Ray, Home School Researcher, 2007, Volume 17, Number 3, p. 9-12.

[note: This article appears in the section of Home School Researcher that is entitled “Perspectives – News and Comments” and articles in this section have not undergone peer review.]

Author reviews issue of homeschooling by blacks by presenting thoughts of some negative critics of people of color homeschooling, pointing out that these negative critiques are philosophical in nature while offering no empirical evidence to support their claims that homeschooling is worse for the “common good” or “equity,” and presenting why many black parents are choosing home-based education.

Keywords, descriptors, key terms: blacks, African Americans, common good, equity, home schooling, homeschooling, homeschool, home school, home education, home-based education.

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Emotional, social and academic adjustment to college: A comparison between Christian home schooled and traditionally schooled college freshmen

Scott White, Elizabeth Williford, John Brower, Terance Collins, Roman Merry, and Maryam Washington; Home School Researcher, 2007, Volume 17, Number 4, p. 1-7.

Home schooled students’ ability to successfully adjust to college life is one important criterion to demonstrate a positive outcome of home schooling. The present study compared . . . on the College Adjustment Scale. The mean scores of the two groups were compared across the nine CAS scales designed to measure emotional, behavioral, social and academic problems typically presenting to university counseling centers. The home schooled students scored significantly . . .

Keywords, descriptors, key terms: college, college adjustment, adults, socialization, academics, home schooling, homeschooling, home education, home-based education