"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:12:20 -0800, "PrecisionMachinisT"
wrote:


"Steve........................................... "
wrote
in message news97Xb.171110$U%5.801034@attbi_s03...

As for the swipe at home-schoolers, the dark truth that the government
education bureaucracy wants to bury is that home-school kids as a group
accomplish better measurable educational results in an average three
hours
per day than government schools accomplish in seven.


Always some kind of conspiracy, it seems.........

You sure the "dark truth" is that *nothing* is being buried, and all
those
Christians calling for home schooling arent just putting up a smoke
screen
to cover their own failings ???

How about some cites ??? This is *your* claim, after all...........

http://www.ericfacility.net/database.../ed435709.html


This one is based only on a group of families that had contracted to take
the Iowa test and demographics indicate this group to be well above average
income...........

"It should be noted that it was not possible within the parameters of this
study to evaluate whether this sample is truly representative of the entire
population of home school students. Noting that the press had reported the
results as if the sample had been random, Welner and Welner (1999) correctly
cautioned that the results may not be an accurate portrayal of the home
school population".



http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/29home.h18


"Mr. Rudner emphasized that although the home schoolers performed well above
the national median on commonly used tests, the study does not prove that
home schooling is superior to private or public education."

"Home schoolers' median scores across grade level and subject area typically
fell in the 70th to 80th percentile. Almost 25 percent of the home schoolers
were studying one or more grades above normal for their age."

"But the study does not compare the home schoolers' test scores with those
of children from similar families who are in public or private schools."


http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/



"Because this was not a controlled experiment, the study does not
demonstrate that home schooling is superior to public or private schools and
the results must be interpreted with caution."


http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issue...schooling.html



About the same as the others above, and based on the same studies or
apparently upon results results of paid-for, voluntary testing....



Until tests are mandatorily administered to ALL the home-schooled,
regardless of demographics, and scores are compared with those children in
the public schools, such studies are pretty much meaningless.

None of the above studies take into account the home schooled kids who were
not tested, which, by the way, seem likely to constitute the vast majority.

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SVL