On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:42:36 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

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
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/29home.h18
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/
http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issue...schooling.html

"People disagree over homeschooling's social and academic benefits.
Test score data from states requiring testing or from homeschooling
associations, while not totally representative, suggest that tested
homeschooled children are above average (Lines 2001). According to two
Time reporters (Cloud and Morse 2001), "the average SAT score for home
schoolers in 2000 was 1100, compared with 1019 for the general
population."

Nice to see that all of my kids did better than the average home
schooled kid. God only knows how they would have done if home
schooled. Cringe.
Sue

Ray's report shows that "home-schooled pupils who took the Iowa Test
of Basic Skills outscored public school students by 37 percentile
points" (Viadero, March 19, 1997). On the Stanford Achievement Test,
the advantage was 30 percentile points. The longer kids had been
educated at home, the better their test scores. Also, "students whose
parents had teaching certificates scored only slightly higher than the
children of nonteachers" (Viadero, March 19, 1997). "


Gunner



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