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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....
Key Articles On School Choice From Homeschooling Backgrounder
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 the money...
The Homeschool Effect in Oregon
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....
Responding to a Misleading Study on Vouchers and Homeschool Regulations
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...
Does Homeschooling or Private Schooling Promote Political Intolerance?
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 instrument...
Universal School Choice usually costs taxpayers more, not less
Rodger Williams October 2, 2023 Universal School Choice usually costs taxpayers more, not less. The problem is that under Universal School Choice Education Savings Account (ESA) and universal voucher programs, the taxpayer ends up funding additional private school...
School Choice: Expensive, Ineffective, Damaging, With Resource Restrictions And Parent Dissatisfaction
Rodger Williams November 16, 2023 School Choice is a strategy to use government money to move students from public schools to private education options. Taxpayer funding is foundational for this process. Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are currently the most...
What is “Good” Research? Research Methods 101
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.June 1, 2020 Excerpt: Social science research (e.g., education research) almost never sees "the perfect study." While teaching research methods at the university graduate and undergraduate levels across seven years, I explained to my students that...