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 Homeschooling Backgrounder | Evidence, Issues
Paula BolyardMay 2, 2019 Excerpt: This happens every few years — someone trots out a collection of child abuse horror stories and blames the abuse on the fact that parents were permitted to keep their own children in their own homes without government...
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 Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues
Question: Is the observed high academic achievement of homeschoolers due to the method of education or just due to homeschooler demographics? Homeschool critics prominently voice — without supporting evidence — conjectures such as these from Lubienski,...