"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:02:13 +0700, John wrote:

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http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp


. Independent Evaluations of Homeschooling

1. In 1997, a study of 5,402 homeschool students from 1,657 families was
released. It was entitled, "Strengths of Their Own: Home Schoolers
Across America." The study demonstrated that homeschoolers, on the
average, out-performed their counterparts in the public schools by 30 to
37 percentile points in all subjects.

There are dozens of such studies. The average is around 8 to 12 percentile
point advantage. All of the advantage disappears when you norm for parents'
education, race, and income.

All of it.

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Conclusion

These statistics point to one conclusion: homeschooling works. Even many
of the State Departments of Education, which are generally biased toward
the public school system, cannot argue with these facts. Not only does
homeschooling work, but it works without the myriad of state controls
and accreditation standards imposed on the public schools.

It works because it costs the economy something like $30,000 in lost
productivity for every capable worker who spends his or her time teaching
one or two kids. That works out to something like an extra $700,000 for each
average classroom. Again, normed for demographics, the result is roughly the
same each way.

The percentage of families with kids who have only one parent working is
approximately 30%. Among those who home-school, it's 60%.

In other words, home-schooling may be the stupidest economic move anyone
ever made in education.

--
Ed Huntress