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Two False Claims Against a Credible Study
Rodger Williams January 27, 2018 The Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE) posted an article containing false statements about my study titled "Homeschool child fatalities fewer than the national average". Specifically, CRHE charged that I copied their...
Thirty-Six Percent?
Rodger Williams March 8, 2019 The Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE) -- an organization calling for increased government regulation and oversight of homeschooling nationwide -- has told Illinois lawmakers and Louisiana lawmakers: [I]n 2018, a...
Comparing Two Forms of Public Schooling: What Relevance to Homeschooling?
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.September 9, 2020 Excerpt: McCracken and Coleman have provided an engaging look at the relative academic success of two types of public school students in Alaska. One group is engaged in government-run correspondence schooling and the other is in...
How “School Choice” Undermines Homeschooling Freedom
Rodger WilliamsDecember 4, 2020 What is School Choice? Most people think "options" when they hear the term "school choice." The ability of parents to legally choose homeschooling, for example. But that is not what School Choice means. The phrase should actually be...
Five Unfounded Assumptions Embodied in Homeschool 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 boost to...
Primary Reason Behind Homeschooling is Lack of Safety in the Public Schools
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 homeschooling...
The “No one knows” Logical Fallacy
Paula BolyardMay 2, 2019 Excerpt: This happens every few years -- someone trots out a collection of child abuse horror stories and blames the abuse on the fact that parents were permitted to keep their own children in their own homes without government...
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs
Home visiting is used as a strategy to deliver services to families in their homes. The visits may be designed to prevent or reduce a variety of problems. The federal government evaluates voluntary home visiting programs for families with children up...
Definitions: Labeling A Public School Fatality As A Homeschool Fatality
Homeschooling's Invisible Children (HIC) -- operating under the oversight of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE) -- includes Matthew Tirado's death in 2017 in their list of homeschool fatalities (as of February 22, 2019). HIC's...