New Study Shows Homeschoolers Excel Academically

Homeschoolers, on average, scored 37% above public school students on standardized achievement tests

New Study Shows Homeschoolers Excel Academically...

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on August 7, 2009:

Today, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) released a new study: the Progress Report 2009: Homeschool Academic Achievement and Demographics, conducted by Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute, which surveyed 11,739 homeschooled students for the 2007-08 academic school year. The results were consistent with previous studies on homeschool academic achievement and showed that homeschoolers, on average, scored 37 percentile points above public school students on standardized achievement tests.

"These results validate the dedication of hundreds of thousands of homeschool parents who are giving their children the best education possible," said Michael Smith, president of HSLDA.

The Progress Report drew homeschoolers from 15 independent testing services and is the most comprehensive study of homeschool academic achievement ever completed.

While the academic results are impressive, the study also showed that the achievement gaps common to public schools were not found in the homeschool community.

Homeschooled boys (87th percentile) and girls (88th percentile) scored equally well; the income level of parents did not appreciably affect the results (household income under $35,000: 85th percentile - household income over $70,000: 89th percentile); and while parent education level did have some impact, even children whose parents did not have college degrees scored in the 83rd percentile, which is well above the national average for public school students. Homeschooled children whose parents both had college degrees scored in the 90th percentile.

"Because of the one-on-one instruction homeschoolers receive, we are prepared academically to be productive and contributing members of today's society," said Smith.

The average public school spends nearly $10,000 per child per year whereas the Progress Report shows that the average homeschool parent spends about $500 per child per year.

"Homeschooling is a rapidly growing, thriving education movement that is challenging the conventional wisdom about the best way to raise and educate the next generation," said Smith.

There are an estimated 2 million homeschooled children in the U.S. today, which is about 4% of the school-aged population, and homeschooling is growing at around 7% per year.

More details on the Progress Report

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U.K. Government Tightens Leash on Homeschoolers: Fears Raised of Germany-Style Clampdown...

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on June 11, 2009:

Under newly announced Labour government rules, local council authorities are authorized to enter private homes to interview children, without parents present, on their safety and “quality of education.” The new regulations have raised fears among Britain’s homeschooling community of a government attack on the rights of parents to educate their children at home.

Families will be forced to register with authorities and could face criminal penalties if they are deemed to be inadequately educating their children. The compulsory program will be administered by local councils who will visit parents intending to homeschool within one month of registration. Parents and guardians, the rules say, “must provide a clear statement of their educational approach, intent and desired outcomes for the child over the following twelve months.”

Homeschooling groups said they are “absolutely devastated” at the news. Annette Taberner, from the advocacy group Education Otherwise, said, “To suggest parents can continue to home educate but then give powers to local authorities to enter our homes and interview our children without an adult being present is just extraordinary.

“This is nothing short of an attempt to regulate the private lives of people. It is a very bad day for civil liberties in this country.”

A government review, that has been fully adopted, said that council authorities should have the right of access with just two weeks notice. Under the new rules, councils can impose compulsory school attendance orders based on home visit assessments.

Maria Haynes, a homeschooling mother in Cheshire County told LifeSiteNews.com that in her view this latest wave of government pressure is just the beginning. Mrs. Haynes said, “They’re really just trying to get their claws on us.”

At the moment in Britain, homeschoolers are free to educate their children at home without restrictive government involvement. Under the current law, children in Britain must be educated, but the act does not require that they attend school. Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 of England and Wales on “compulsory education” says it is the “duty of parents to secure education of children of compulsory school age. The parent of every child of compulsory school age shall cause him to receive efficient full-time education ... either by regular attendance at school or otherwise.”

Mrs. Haynes said that it is on this crucial clause, “or otherwise,” that homeschoolers base their legal right to educate their children at home. It is this clause therefore, she said, that is most clearly threatened by Britain’s heavily statist government.

Mrs. Haynes particularly pointed to a program in the UK’s schools formerly called “Connexions” and recently renamed “Every Child Matters” in which she says the school system works to break down ties between parents and children in favor of the state and secularist ideology. It is this program, she said, that the government would like to see extended to homeschooled children.

Referring to the struggles of homeschooling families in Germany where the practice is outlawed and parents have been jailed, she said that there are fears that the new rules are “the beginning of going down that sort of avenue.”

"My children, I repeat, 666, known forever in the Book of life, the Bible, as the man of perdition, is not one man, but the forces of evil gathered like vultures to destroy the Christian and Christianity, to enslave the good and make powerful the bad, to make sin a way of life until each and every living creature of knowledgeable age must make the decision: Who is your master, man or God?" - Our Lady of the Roses, April 9, 1977

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