Entries by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.

Homeschooling Growth Nationwide: Multiple Data Points Indicate a Continued Increase through 2016

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Homeschooling Growth Nationwide: Multiple Data Points Indicate a Continued Increase through 2016 PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1  Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon Keywords: homeschooling, home schooling, home education, home-based education, population size, demographics, research, statistics, school choice research, private schools. Is the homeschool population and movement growing, or not? Is it […]

Homeschooling in Brazil: An Overview

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G. S. Arruda Licentiate in Pedagogy at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), joao.guilherme.arruda@bol.com.br   S. Paiva Licentiate in Pedagogy at the University Center Plínio Leite (UNIPLI), fspv@bol.com.br   Abstract This article intends to expand the debate about homeschooling in Brazil, presenting an overview of this new reality in the […]

Sensemaking in Non-Public School Choices

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Myra B. Lovett Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Louisiana at Monroe, mlovett@ulm.edu   Timothy G. Ford Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Oklahoma, tgford@ou.edu   Abstract Using Weick’s (1995) sensemaking theory and a phenomenological approach, the researchers sought to investigate the process by which parents choose non-public education. The […]

Comments on “Parental Influence on the Cardiovascular Health and Body Composition of Homeschool Children” by Wachob and Alman

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Comments on “Parental Influence on the Cardiovascular Health and Body Composition of Homeschool Children” by Wachob and Alman PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1  Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon Recent research has established factors that have a bearing on the health status of children. These include environmental and parental influence. Researchers […]

Homeschooled Teachers and the Apprenticeship of Observation

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Jennifer Locraft Cuddapah and Christy Danko Graybeal Associate Professors, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, cuddapah@hood.edu and graybeal@hood.edu   Abstract Although teacher educators often lament that teachers teach as they were taught, it is commonly assumed that future teachers of mathematics have had experience as students in typical mathematics classrooms. Yet, not all future teachers have had […]

Despising Private Home-Based Homeschooling Education and Contorting Rights: A Review of Robin West’s “A Tale of Two Rights”

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Despising Private Home-Based Homeschooling Education and Contorting Rights: A Review of Robin West’s “A Tale of Two Rights” PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1  Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon A person must read what certain academics professors write to grasp the full animus that some people have against parents directing the […]

Cutting Class: Experiences of Gifted Adolescents Who Switched to Homeschooling

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Laura J. Lee Center for Research in Educational Policy; The University of Memphis, laurajlee73@gmail.com* Abstract Six homeschooled adolescents, who were previously enrolled in a Mid-South city’s public school gifted programs, share their experiences in this qualitative study. Although the participants received some differentiated education services in school, their parents felt the accommodations were inadequate for […]

Homeschooling for Talent Development in Gifted Students

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Homeschooling for Talent Development in Gifted Students PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1  Cindy M. Felso Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, cindfel@mail.regent.edu   Abstract Many options for gifted education remain rooted in research stemming from the early 1900s and share a common view of giftedness as a somewhat static concept. Recently, another framework for gifted education […]

Homeschooling Approach: How Do Parents Decide?

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Letitia (Tish) Walters David P. Daves The University of Southern Mississippi, tish1w@gmail.com   Abstract This study examined the factors influencing parental selection of homeschooling approaches for their children. Factors explored were parental motivators for selecting homeschooling approaches, and parental reasons for choosing to homeschooling.  The population consisted of a sample size (n = 228) that […]

Comments on Black Homeschoolers: Nowhere Left to Go

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Comments on Black Homeschoolers: Nowhere Left to Go  PERSPECTIVES – News and Comments1  Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA A well-recognized professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies, Michael Apple (2006), proclaimed a decade ago that homeschooling is, overall, bad for African American parents, their children, and society. […]