by Rodger Williams | Issues, Mandated Reporter Visits
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...
by Rodger Williams | Evidence, Issues
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...
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....
by Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues
Blurring the lines on what is considered “homeschooling” can set parents up for disappointment in terms of the academic and social goals they have in mind for their child, as well as in communicating the family’s values. From the beginning of the...
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,...
