by Guest Author | Feb 15, 2016 | Common Core
The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) had asked Indiana Association of Home Educators (IAHE) to make recommendations for involvement in developing new Indiana Science Standards. IAHE recommended several homeschool parents with strong science backgrounds who were...
by Guest Author | Jan 8, 2016 | Parenting & Family
By Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. The Context Do parents unfairly advantage their children by paying for private schooling, reading aloud to them at bedtime, or homeschooling them? Just when you thought you (as a parent) were doing something good, philosophers construe it to be...
by Guest Author | Nov 18, 2015 | Parenting & Family
The Context Year after year, decade after decade, education experts, researchers, and policymakers offer more techniques and programs to try to enhance the learning of children at the pre-Kindergarten level. They hope to increase learning readiness, cognitive skills,...
by Guest Author | Sep 17, 2015 | General
Many homeschooling parents have been prodded with this leading question: “Why do you want to shelter your child from the world so much?” Sheltering or not, does research tell us anything new about the effects of home-based education? The Context When someone...
by Guest Author | Aug 18, 2015 | General
By Dr. Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. Many journalists ask me, “Why do homeschool students do so well academically?” And I have had to answer this same question as an expert witness in court many times. There are some simple answers, one of which I would like to propose in this...
