Home-Based Education: The Informed Choice

Dr. Brian Ray gives an engaging and fact-filled presentation based on the latest research-based information. In this one-of-a-kind video, he explains why there are now 1.5 to 1.9 million American students being homeschooled and why it is growing internationally. Dr. Ray reviews research and analyzes important societal assumptions throughout the video. For example:

• Who homeschools?
  
• Why do they do it?
  
• How are the children performing academically?
  
• What about “socialization”?
  
• Do they know how to get along with others?
  
• How does home-based education improve parent/child and sibling/sibling relationships?
  
• What about the common good of society?
  
• How do homeschool graduates do in the “real world” of college and work?
  
• What about special needs children?
  
• What about talented and gifted students?
  
• What about minorities? Haven’t public schools saved them?
  
• Does home-based education restrict or advance freedom in liberty-loving nations?
  
• Who should be teaching and indoctrinating children -- parents or the government?
  
• Should you homeschool?

These are the latest facts to help any parent make an informed decision about the education of his or her children.

Brian D. Ray, Ph.D., is president and founder of the National Home Education Research Institute (Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.). Dr. Ray has conducted and published numerous studies on homeschooling, speaks widely to the media, professional meetings, and homeschool conferences, and provides expert testimony before many courts and legislatures. Dr. Ray earned his Ph.D. in science education from Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.) and has served as a teacher in public and private schools and as a university professor in the areas of science and education. His publications include Home Schooling on the Threshold. Dr. Ray is considered a leading expert on home education in the United States and internationally. He been a guest numerous times on U.S. and international media, for example the NBC Today Show and National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation.”

DVD, 106 minutes
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