by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Issues, Legislation
Rodger WilliamsJune 17, 2024 🔗 Download the image 🔗 Go to the data source for this...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Public schools, Research
Rodger Williams July 28, 2025 Public schools are commonly assumed to protect their students from child abuse because of mandatory reporters. We now have visible evidence showing that assumption to be false and the research explaining why. 85% of students are in the...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Public schools, Research
Rodger Williams June 12, 2025 Most people assume that public schools protect students because the schools’ mandatory reporters contact Child Protective Services (CPS) about suspected child abuse. That assumption is wrong. Federal child abuse data displays no...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research
Rodger Williams Updated February 16, 2024 Public school advocates maintain that their schools protect students from child abuse because of mandatory reporters. But Federal data fails to support that assumption. Younger children are subject to higher rates of abuse...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Public schools, Research
Rodger Williams July 21, 2025 Public schools are commonly assumed to protect their students from child abuse because of mandatory reporters. We now have visible evidence showing that assumption to be false and the research explaining why. 85% of students are in the...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams August 12, 2020 Editor’s note: See Percentiles for help interpreting the graph. The graph compares the public school academic achievement curve on the left with the homeschool achievement curve on the...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | School Choice
Compiled by Rodger WilliamsUpdated January 3, 2024 Note: These article titles are links to the individual articles, followed by an excerpt from each article. ________________________________ Context Two Types of Private Education Under “School Choice” Take...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams July 5, 2014 Home educated students have long been recognized by research as scoring substantially higher than expected, on average, on nationally normed achievement tests. We will take a deeper look at the mechanics of how that works out in practice....
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | School Choice, School Choice and Regulation
Homeschool OklahomaFebruary 24, 2025 Excerpt: Oklahoma introduced a tax-credit voucher program in 2023, offering $1,000 to homeschoolers. Since then, multiple bills have been introduced proposing strict homeschooling regulations, such as mandatory background checks...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Research, Socialization
Albert Cheng reviewed by Brian Ray January 10, 2014 Excerpt: Political tolerance is “… defined as the willingness to extend basic civil liberties to political or social groups that hold views with which one disagrees” (p. 49). The researcher used an...
