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Home Schooling Works!!!
Homeschooling Works!
Academically: Across academic content areas and across grade levels, homeschoolers as a group consistently, year after year, outscore public schoolers or private schoolers. Parental involvement is key, along with the tutorial method of catered learning.
Socially: Homeschoolers, on average, are involved in 5 activities outside of the home, use the public libraries more than any other students, and go on to become leaders on their college campuses.
Homeschooling Works!
Research Shows: Regulation (high level or moderate) does not improve the academic achievement of homeschool students. States with little or no regulation have the same high results: generally homeschool students perform at the 85th percentile level compared to the 50th percentile level of public school students. See attached research report.
Research Shows: Education Freedom (including states giving homeschoolers freedom) has a causative relationship with academic achievement of ALL students, including public school students. See the Manhattan Institute report at www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_24.htm; “Academic achievement is positively correlated with educational freedom. Indeed, if a state could improve its Education Freedom Index Score by one point, we would expect that an additional 4.1% of its students would perform proficiently on the NAEP math test.”
Read the Research in Detail: Go to www.hslda.org/research and examine the plethora of research studies demonstrating that homeschooling does indeed work.
For a good overall summary, read Home School Achievement (130kb). This is also available at the HSLDA site above. For example, this study includes the following academic achievement graph, which shows that on average home-schooled students perform 30-35 percentage points better than public-schooled students:
