This post briefly reviews preliminary releases of the new study conducted by Brian Ray for HSLDA called “Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics.” The full study is scheduled for release in November 2009.
While the full report has not yet been published, HSLDA has already posted a press release describing its scope and celebrating [...]
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New Ray/HSLDA Study on Homeschooler Achievement
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, California Achievement Test, Home School Legal Defense Association, Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics, HSLDA, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), NHERI, Stanford Achievement Test on September 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Cavanaugh reviews the literature on Cyber Charter Effectiveness
Posted in Quantitative data, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged Cathy Cavanaugh, cybercharters, Tech Trends on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Cathy Cavanaugh, “Effectiveness of Cyber Charters: A Review of Research on Learnings” in Tech Trends 53, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 28-31 [available fulltext here]
In another article taken from the special issue of Tech Trends devoted to cyber schools, Cavanaugh, Associate Professor of educational technology at the University of Florida at Gainesville, [...]
Gatto on the Evils of Public Education
Posted in research methodology, tagged Calvinism, childhood obesity, Dumbing Us Down, Home Education Magazine, HSLDA, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, Michael Farris, Pat Farenga, predestination, total depravity, Underground History of American Education on February 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This post reviews John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (New Society Publishers, 2009).
John Taylor Gatto is a legendary figure in the world of homeschooling. My bookon homeschool history describes how by the late 1980s secular and conservative Protestant homeschoolers increasingly became estranged. The large [...]
Rob Kunzman’s Homeschooling Research Site
Posted in research methodology, tagged Indiana University, Rob Kunzman, Robert Kunzman on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some readers may have noticed that I recently added a new link to my blogroll. Rob Kunzman, Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University in Bloomington, has a really great resource for anyone interested in homeschooling research. Kunzman is the real deal. His extensive research has long focused on religion and morality in public schools, and [...]
Brian D. Ray and NHERI, part 2
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, HSLDA, NHERI on October 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my previous post I described how a series of email exchanges with Brian Ray motivated me to devote more systematic attention to his work than I had done previously. Dr. Ray, in an unfailingly courteous manner, criticized previous assertions I had made in this blog about the limited scientific reach of his studies and [...]
Brian D. Ray and NHERI, part 1
Posted in Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, NHERI on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some weeks ago I had an interesting email exchange with Dr. Brian D. Ray who responded to me graciously but critically concerning several comments I have made about his organization in some of my blog posts. Specifically, Dr. Ray objected to two things. First, he objected to my association of his organization with HSLDA, maintaining [...]
Zigler, Pfannenstiel, and Seitz on Parent Educators
Posted in Family life, Quantitative data, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged Education Begins at Home Act, Edward Zigler, Head Start, Home-Based Program, HSLDA, Judy C. Pfannenstiel, Parents as Teachers (PAT), Victoria Seitz on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post reviews Edward Zigler, Judy C. Pfannenstiel, and Victoria Seitz, “The Parents as Teachers Program and School Success: A Replication and Extension” in Journal of Primary Prevention 29, no. 2 (March 2008): 103-120 [Available fulltext here].
Many government programs exist to try to help parents, especially low-income parents, better prepare their children for school. Programs [...]
Gaither on Eating Humble Pie
Posted in History of Homeschooling, research methodology, tagged Chris Klicka, Gallup Poll, Public Attitudes toward Homeschooling, Robert Kunzman on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I received an email from Dr. Robert Kunzman, a professor at Indiana University who has written widely on topics related to moral and religious education in public schools and is currently working on a book on homeschooling. After saying many kind and flattering things about my book he gently alerted me to an error [...]
Ray and Eagleson on Government Regulations and SAT Scores
Posted in Homeschool Law, Homeschooling and Higher Education, Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Bruce K. Eagleson, Government regulation of homeschooling, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), SAT scores on September 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This post reviews Brian D. Ray and Bruce K. Eagleson, “State Regulation of Homeschooling and Homeschoolers’ SAT Scores” in Academic Leadership: The Online Journal 6, no. 3 (14 August 2008). [Available fulltext here]
Ray, founder and president of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), and Eagleson, Chief of Emergency Medicine at a hospital in Lebanon, PA, [...]
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