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Academic Achievement of Homeschool Students: A Review of Peer-reviewed 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,...
National Study on Homeschool Child Abuse
Brian Ray March 15, 2023 Excerpt: First, [Ray and Shakeel] obtained a nationally representative sample. Second, they collected data from the adult sample that included the full year-by-year 13-year schooling history and demographics during both childhood and...
Falling through the cracks: Public school vs. homeschool
Rodger Williams April 24, 2018 Updated November 4, 2023 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...
National Homeschool Achievement Data Reliability
Rodger Williams October 1, 2024 A recurring criticism of the nationwide studies on homeschool academic achievement -- conducted by Dr. Brian Ray and the National Home Education Research Institute -- is that participants were self-selected. That is, the data was not...
Why Has This Homeschooled Child Been Singled Out? (Utah)
Rodger WilliamsSeptember 3, 2024 🔗 Download the image 🔗 Go to the data source for this article
School Choice Tax Credits Will Fail For The Same Reasons ESAs Are Failing
Rodger Williams January 2, 2024 School Choice advocates (Advocates) are starting to have second thoughts about ESAs (Education Savings Accounts). I am very excited for all these new ESA programs, and if the results are good, then we'll continue to support them. But if...
Why Have These Homeschooled Children Been Singled Out? (Michigan)
Rodger Williams December 13, 2023
School Choice: Can You Spot The Difference?
Audra Talley December 4, 2023 Reprinted by permission of the artist. Based on a presentation by Steven Policastro.
The Heritage Foundation’s Inattentive Claim That School Choice Policies Do Not Raise Private School Tuition
Rodger Williams October 6, 2023 The Heritage Foundation published a Factsheet titled School Choice Policies Do Not Raise Private School Tuition. In it they claim: Over the past 10 years, states that never had a school choice policy had higher rates of tuition...