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Home Schooling Is Still Tops

Mike

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Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.

June 7, 2016

The SAT 2014 test scores of college-bound homeschool students were higher than the national average of all college-bound seniors that same year. Some 13,549 homeschool seniors had the following mean scores: 567 in critical reading, 521 in mathematics, and 535 in writing (College Board, 2014a). The mean SAT scores for all college-bound seniors in 2014 were 497 in critical reading, 513 in mathematics, and 487 in writing (College Board, 2014b). The homeschool students’ SAT scores were 0.61 standard deviation higher in reading, 0.26 standard deviation higher in mathematics, and 0.42 standard deviation higher in writing than those of all college-bound seniors taking the SAT, and these are notably large differences.

There were some demographic differences between homeschool students and all students taken together. First, the family incomes of the homeschool students were similar to those of all students. Regarding ethnicity, for example, 72 percent of the homeschool students were White, 5 percent were Asian, Asian American, or Pacific Islander, and 4 percent were Black or African American, while of all college-bound seniors, the corresponding percentages were 49, 12, and 13. The average highest level of parental education was notably higher for the homeschool students than for all students.

This point-in-time description of SAT scores simply shows that the test scores of homeschool students are higher than the national average for all students. No careful analysis has been done of these scores to determine whether certain background variables might statistically explain the differences in scores.

These relatively high SAT scores of home-educated students are consistent with their high SAT scores in preceding research and with research findings on the overall success of college students who were home educated (Gloeckner & Jones, 2013; Murphy, 2012; Ray & Eagleson, 2008).
 

loomixguy

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The majority of home schoolers here are Hovy Jovy's. The kids are all smart & test well, but are seriously lacking any social skills and friends from diverse backgrounds. No exposure to organized sports, no relationship with fellow teammates, etc. My son says, "They're weird". I have to agree for the most part.
 

Faster horses

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Here Home Schooled kids can be members of 4-H, Church, and summer sports, to name a few.

With this bathroom thing, I bet there are more kids home-schooled than ever before.
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Home school kids by their very nature have parents that are involved. So you would expect a higher than average score compare to public education.

I disagree that economics would be similar. Home school kids would require one parent being able to stay at home, i highly doubt that the average child in america in public school has a stay at home parent. And i would be interested to know if the income is taking into consideration if one vs two incomes to reach the same gross household income.

More interesting stat would be to compare home schooled children with private school kids.

Our legislature didn't do anything with it, but started a discussion of voucher program. That in and of itself would do wonders for schools.

It would allow for way more private schools to be developed. Kids behaving poorly could be denied admittence. It would alter the dynamic of forcing kids to go to school, to them competing to be let in the better schools.

How many churches could be turned into private schools? That would turn no prayer in schools on its ear and get some morality back in our society.
 

Faster horses

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My father did not get to finish school. He never got over that because it limited him in his chosen profession.
When he was a kid, it was a PRIVILEGE to attend school. Now kids think it is their RIGHT and many do not value the
opportunity afforded them to attend school. Funny how things change.
 

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