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Sure. People should have the right not to teach their kids how to read. Is that I how you understand freedom?
Think your the one that needs a little education
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Five areas of academic pursuit were measured. In reading, the average home-schooler scored at the 89th percentile; language, 84th percentile; math, 84th percentile; science, 86th percentile; and social studies, 84th percentile. In the core studies (reading, language and math), the average home-schooler scored at the 88th percentile.
The average public school student taking these standardized tests scored at the 50th percentile in each subject area.
Your funny. You take a small sample of home schooled kids, usually with affluent and educated parents and compare to many times larger group of kids in public education. Priceless.
Regarding the third reason, there is new research showing that the average home-schooler who takes standardized achievement tests is doing very well. The study, commissioned by the Home School Legal Defense Association and conducted by Brian Ray, an internationally recognized scholar and president of the nonprofit National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), is called “Progress Report 2009: Homeschool Academic Achievement and Demographics.”
Did you read the entire article, nothing like an objective study sponsored by the Home Schooling LDA, would have been nice to hear from the 1.5 Million rather than just 12,000 do they also take tests.
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The study included almost 12,000 home-school students from all 50 states who
took three well-known standardized achievements tests — the California Achievement Test, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test — for the 2007-08 academic year. The students were
drawn from 15 independent testing services, making it the most comprehensive
home-school academic study to date.
Homeschooling seems like a very bad idea, in most situations. I think Germany has it right here, not the US. They will win in the end.
1 - higher scoring home school users is not an indicator of success. As pointed out several times, this is selection bias. Home school students is a system that can -normally- only be afforded by the type of students who perform well/average/above average. Low income families, who traditionally perform badly in school, are not likely to be able to be home schooled
2 - i have not seen a test and control based on similar demographics. I.e impact of home school based on people in same area, same income, same pre-home school grades, etc. That would be interesting
3 - my primary concern is for people who want to home school to avoid education. i.e. fear of science. That is bad for the US.
Did you read the entire article, nothing like an objective study sponsored by the Home Schooling LDA, would have been nice to hear from the 1.5 Million rather than just 12,000 do they also take tests.
Easy to have outstanding results when you don't test people like the kids of Lev Tahor, who only study religious texts and can't even do basic math.
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