Heres an article that has some great research about the benefits of homeschooling. www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-Homeschooling.html Just thought I would share
Thank you for publishing this very informative article content. It held my interest from the very first sentence, and has given me something to counter my ideals about the subject.
Interesting article, thanks for posting. But I didnt like the part at the end, where it said that none of this PROVES that homeschooling caused these positive effects. If it was not the homeschooling that caused these things, then what did?
Some public schoolers have results that are the match for any homeschooler's. If I'm not mistaken, however, a greater fraction of homeschoolers have better results than the fraction of public schoolers with those same results. There are a lot of factors involved: homeschoolers may have more involved parents than the majority of public schoolers; homeschoolers may be less peer-oriented than public schoolers for whom "good grades aren't cool"; homeschoolers more often get to have a say in what they learn and when they learn it than public schoolers; more homeschoolers get to pursue their own interests and therefore learn it more thoroughly; more homeschoolers are taught by the tutorial method (one-to-one, very small group) than public schoolers are; homeschoolers get more real-life education out in the community, on field trips, making family vacations into educational opportunities, etc. (so learning is not compartmentalized but rather a 24/7 experience). Another factor is that ALL public schoolers are mandated to take the tests that make up those statistics, but only a relative few homeschoolers are mandated to take them, while others take them because they choose to, and still others don't take them at all.
I think that this is a great point. Its hard to find strong data that showes that Homeschooling is better or worse then public schooling, because the two learning enviornments can be so different. The statistics that I look for is how do hs children do as adults in careers or being accepted into good colleges.
