Strengths of Their Own

by Brian D. Ray

Book Overview

This unique book is an engaging comprehensive report, on Dr. Ray's largest-ever nationwide and longitudinal study, that includes statistics, analyses, and an evaluation of home education's benefits to children, families, and society. This book presents a summary of many researchers studies on home schooling, explains the methods used in this nationwide study, presents many pages and graphs of data and statistics, summarizes the findings, and concludes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965755401
• ISBN13: 9780965755405
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: National Home Ed Research Inst
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The book is a perfectly spiced stew: it has everything.

"Strengths of Their Own, Brian D. Ray's remarkable book about the home schooling movement, is must reading for educators and policy-makers alike. ..... The book is a perfectly spiced stew: it has everything. Hard data ... Students' scores ... Statistical analysis ... Testing policies ... And wisdom the benefit of Dr. Ray's long, intense commitment and involvement with home education. [And] it's in the `strengths of home education' section of Strengths of Their Own that the book really takes off." -- Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Administration, Policy, and Urban Education, Fordham University, New York NY.

Unique, factual,...powerful. ... All parents.. must read...

"Unique, factual, and powerful. In Dr. Ray's Strengths of Their Own we find that parents who take personal responsibility for the education and socialization of their children reap a harvest of exceptional children who are well-prepared to lead this country into the next century. All parents who care and anyone with a stake in the issue of home education must read this book." Michael P. Farris, J.D., President, Home School Legal Defense Association