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 | Evidence, Issues
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. June 1, 2020 Excerpt: Social science research (e.g., education research) almost never sees “the perfect study.” While teaching research methods at the university graduate and undergraduate levels across seven years, I explained to my...
by Rodger Williams | Issues, Mandated Reporter Visits
Home visiting is used as a strategy to deliver services to families in their homes. The visits may be designed to prevent or reduce a variety of problems. The federal government evaluates voluntary home visiting programs for families with children up...
by Rodger Williams | Evidence, Issues
The Coalition for Responsible Home Education does not agree with how I utilized their publicly available database of child abuse fatalities in my study titled “Homeschool Child Fatalities Fewer Than the National Average”. [F]ar from conducting original...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Brian Ray September 3, 2018 Excerpt: During the past five years or so, negative critics of homeschooling and of homeschool advocacy have claimed that research on homeschooling tells us almost nothing (e.g., about academic achievement or test scores). More recently,...