by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation
Rodger Williams October 3, 2020 Unfounded assumption #1: Depriving children of the opportunity to homeschool does not harm them Editor’s note: See Percentiles for help interpreting the graph. The chart shows homeschooling gives the same academic...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger WilliamsAugust 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 | 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 | 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,...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Research, Socialization
Richard G. Medlin June 19, 2013 Abstract: This article reviews recent research on homeschooled children’s socialization. The research indicates that homeschooling parents expect their children to respect and get along with people of diverse backgrounds, provide...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams April 24, 2018 Homeschool academic achievement — as measured by standardized tests — is normally distributed, just like public school academic achievement. Not only is the homeschool curve the same shape as the public school curve, it also...