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What Makes A Homeschooler: Homeschooling’s Critics Know
Brian RayApril 9, 2025 Excerpted from NHERI Working Paper Whether by scholars, teachers' unions, policymakers, or nonprofit advocacy organizations, most of the controversy about homeschooling has centered around who should have control over who spends...
Why “School Choice” Laws Cannot Protect Homeschoolers From Regulation
Rodger Williams March 15, 2022 “School Choice” means parental education choices that are paid for by the government, with either direct payments or education tax credits. School Choice advocates often claim that homeschoolers will be protected from government...
The Ironic Failure Of CPS to Protect Public School Students
Rodger Williams November 17, 2025 Public schools claim to protect their students from child abuse with mandatory reporters. But federal data shows no drop in child abuse rates after children start school. Public schools depend on Child Protective Services (CPS) when...
Why Have These Homeschooled Children Been Singled Out? (West Virginia)
Rodger WilliamsJune 17, 2024 🔗 Download the image 🔗 Go to the data source for this article
Why Public Schools Fail To Protect Students From Child Abuse (New Jersey)
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...
Why Public Schools Fail To Protect Students From Child Abuse
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...
Child Abuse: The Public School Safe Harbor Myth
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...
Why Public Schools Fail To Protect Students From Child Abuse (Connecticut)
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...
Homeschooled Students Receive the Same Academic Boost at All Ability Levels
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 right....