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The results of the interview analysis are used in this article to illustrate the fundamental similarities and differences among home school families.
Maralee Mayberry, Volume 4 Number 3, September 1988
This project was designed to explore the motivations and goals of parents who are home schooling their children.
Sonia K. Gustafson, Volume 4 Number 2, June 1988
The objective of the study was to understand and relate the background influences of a small, select group of parents to present rationales for operating home schools.
J. Gary Knowles, Volume 4 Number 1, March 1988
hat are the admissions requirements, and how do they compare, of 210 selected four year public and private universities in the United States with respect to applicants who have been home schooled? Leslie F. Barnebey pursued this question in her Ed.D. dissertation (“American University Admission
Requirements for Home Schooled Applicants, in 1984•) which was completed at Brigham Young University in 1986. She also determined whether any of four characteristics (Carnegie type, size, support, or location) of the institutions affected the admission of home schooled applicants and explored the attitude of admission officers toward these applicants.
Brian D. Ray, Volume 3 Number 4, December 1987
Mary Anne Pitman (1986) has written the most sweeping review of the literature on home education to date. Since most home school researchers will already be familiar with many of the works cited in the article, I will briefly summarize the content of the review to indicate the comprehensiveness and scope of
Pitman’s review, and then the implications of this article for future home school research will be suggested.
Jane Van Galen, Volume 3 Number 4, December 1987
Presenting Maralee Mayberry.
MARALEE MAYBERRY, HSR Volume 3 Number 2, June 1987
By its very definition, an overview purports to provide a general survey of the topic in hand. As such, Patricia Lines provides a very credible and seemingly objective view of the home schooling movement.
J. Gary Knowles, HSR Volume 3 Number 2, June 1987
The purpose of this study was to give a description of the curricula and methods used in the home school of home educators and evaluate by means of case studies the effects of home education upon those included in the study.
Brian D. Ray, HSR Volume 3 Number 1, March 1987
The purpose of Rose’s research “… was to determine why parents/guardians have removed their child/children from either the public or private schools in order to instruct them at a place other than school (home instruction)” (p. 106) and to determine the attitudes and responses of affected school districts toward these home schoolers?
Brian Ray, HSR Volume 2 Number 4, December 1986
Shepherd carefully worked his way through several topics regarding the home schooling movement: (1) the dilemma today, (2) how/why the movement came about, (3) religious liberty, (4) home schooling in Texas, (5) dimensions of the controversy in the 70s and 80s, (6) home schooling’s future, and (7) whether home schooling is an acceptable alternative to conventional schooling.
Brian Ray, HSR Volume 2 Number 3, September 1986
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