by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Steven Duvall July 7, 2020 Excerpt: During my 40 years in the field of school psychology, I’ve observed a significant shift in parents’ primary reasons for homeschooling. Years ago, parents ranked religious reasons at the top of their motivations for...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Research, Socialization
Richard G. Medlin June 19, 2013 Abstract: This article reviews recent research on homeschooled children’s socialization. The research indicates that homeschooling parents expect their children to respect and get along with people of diverse backgrounds, provide...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Rodger WilliamsMarch 26, 2018 Some homeschool critics claim that no useful research results exist about homeschool child abuse rates, that we just do not know what these rates are. The fact that there has been no randomized sampling of the entire population of...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation, Research
Brian Ray March 15, 2018 Excerpt: A statistical analysis of 18 years of data from all the U.S. states found no relationship between the degree of state control or regulation of homeschooling and the frequency of abuse of homeschool students. That is, low-regulation...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation, Research
Brian Ray February 02, 2010 Excerpt: Degree of State Regulation Students’ scores were examined according to the degree of state regulation (definitions below) in their states at one point in time, the Spring of 2008, close to when most of the data were...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation, Research
Brian Ray January 23, 2018 Excerpt: Based on empirical evidence to date, there is a remarkable rate of abuse of U.S. schoolchildren by school personnel (e.g., teachers, coaches, bus drivers, administrators, custodians). The multiple laws, regulations, and policies...
