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Preventing Academic Failures: Homeschools vs. Public Schools

Preventing Academic Failures: Homeschools vs. Public Schools

by Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues

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 to the best available estimate....
Homeschool Academic Achievement: Education Method vs. Demographics

Homeschool Academic Achievement: Education Method vs. Demographics

by Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues

Question: Is the observed high academic achievement of homeschoolers due to the method of education or just due to homeschooler demographics? Homeschool critics prominently voice — without supporting evidence — conjectures such as these from Lubienski,...
Academic Achievement of Homeschool Students: A Review of Peer-reviewed Research

Academic Achievement of Homeschool Students: A Review of Peer-reviewed Research

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, 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,...
Falling through the cracks: Public school vs. homeschool

Falling through the cracks: Public school vs. homeschool

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research

Rodger Williams April 24, 2018 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 curve, it also...
The Homeschool Effect in Oregon

The Homeschool Effect in Oregon

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research

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....
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