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The Home Visits Option
Some state lawmakers propose legislation to require home visits for homeschoolers from mandated reporters to check for child abuse. Their reasoning is that public school students are protected by mandated child abuse reporting at the school and that homeschooled...
Nurse Home Visits: Voluntary vs. Mandatory
One of the delivery mechanisms for health services is voluntary nurse home visit programs. The federal government has an office which evaluates such programs for pregnant women and children from birth through five years of age. The evaluations cover eight separate...
The CRHE Database Controversy
The Coalition for Responsible Home Education does not agree with how I utilized their publicly available database of child abuse fatalities in my study titled "Homeschool Child Fatalities Fewer Than the National Average". [F]ar from conducting original research,...
Preventing Academic Failures: Homeschools vs. Public Schools
Rodger Williams December 14, 2018 How do homeschools compare with public schools on how well they prevent academic failures, as measured by standardized test scores? The average U.S. homeschool standardized test score is in the range of 65 to 80 percentiles, according...
The Erroneous Use of an Academic Study
Rodger Williams August 30, 2018 The Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE) says on their Homeschool Fast Facts page (as of August 30, 2018): Perpetrators of severe child abuse often homeschool. A 2014 study of child torture found that 47% of school-age child...
An Argument For More Data and Less Ideology
Mary Rice Hasson Fall 2012 Excerpt: This essay looks first at the current homeschooling landscape, noting key changes that have swept through the homeschooling movement over the past several decades. Next it analyzes some of the assumptions implicit in the current...
Homeschooling and the Question of Socialization Revisited
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 their...
Homeschool Fast Facts
An estimated 3.1 million students were homeschooled in the United States during the 2021-2022 school year. (nheri.org) Homeschoolers are diverse Homeschooling families come from many different demographics: Atheists, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons; progressives and...
Research Evidence Indicates Homeschoolers Have a Lower Child Abuse Rate Than Average
Rodger WilliamsMarch 26, 2018 Some homeschool critics claim that no useful research results exist about homeschool child abuse rates, that we just do not know what these rates are. The fact that there has been no randomized sampling of the entire population of...