Home School Enrollment Increases Nationwide, According to Report (730 hits)
by Bethany Monk
It's a fact: an increasing number of parents are choosing to either home school their children, or to enroll them in home-schooling programs. The number of home-schooled children in the country has increased by 75 percent since 1999, according to a report in Education News. The report also says that achievement gaps related to the income levels, ethnicities and s*x of home-school students are not apparent in homeschooling environments. One of the reasons for the increase in home-school enrollment is due to academic achievement, said CitizenLink Education Analyst Candi Cushman.
..."“When you consider that we’ve been pumping lots of money into our public education system with really little to show for it — it’s not that surprising,” she said. “On the other hand, you have home schoolers regularly scoring highly on achievement tests and being recruited by some of the most elite universities.”...
Home-Educated Doing Well at College: Research by Michael Cogan New research on college students who were home educated shows they are doing very well.
Article by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D., posted August 7, 2010
Article by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. July 21, 2010
New research on college students who were home educated shows they are doing very well.
Dr. Michael Cogan, director of the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, compared home-educated students to those from conventional-school backgrounds at one Midwest university.[1]
Controlling for various background demographic, pre-college, and other factors, multiple regression analyses revealed that the home educated earned higher first-year and fourth-year GPAs.
Other multivariate analyses found that the homeschool variable did not significantly contribute to the fall-to-fall retention or four-year graduation models. That is, having been home educated had neither a positive nor a negative impact on these academic outcomes. In simple terms, however, students who were homeschooled did achieve a higher retention rate (88.6 percent) compared to the overall population (87.6 percent). And the home educated achieved a higher graduation rate (66.7 percent) when compared to the overall population (57.5 percent). ...
[ Are there any CitizenLink Education statistics that show educational achievement of homeSchooled children vs socially schooled children? ]
A Comparison of Home Schooling and Conventional Schooling: With a Focus on Learner Outcomes. Sales price: $5.00 Description A Comparison of Home Schooling and Conventional Schooling: With a Focus on Learner Outcomes by Dr. Brian D. Ray — This scholarly, comprehensive review of literature focuses on comparing the learning success of the home educated with students in conventional, mainly public, schools. Although the research base is limited (in 1986) and cause and effect are not established, home education appears to be a favorable learning environment. (57 pages, 1986)
..."The Wall Street Journal, in a May 10, 1994 article, confirmed that many colleges are adjusting their admissions policies to home schoolers: Many colleges now routinely accept home-schooled students, who typically present “portfolios” of their work instead of transcripts. Each year Harvard University takes up to 10 applicants who have had some home schooling. “In general, those kids do just fine,” says David Illingsworth, senior admissions officer. He adds that the number of applications and inquiries from home schoolers is “definitely increasing.” ...
..."Total K–12 public-school spending approaches $700 billion annually. Inflation-adjusted per-pupil school spending has increased over the last century by, on average, 2.3 percent per year. There have been a few plateau years during recessions, but never a significant decline (see Figure 1). As a consequence, the United States now spends more money on K–12 schooling than any other nation in the world. More is spent by the United States, in the aggregate, than by hugely populous nations such as China and India. Spending per pupil is higher in the U.S. than in every country except Switzerland. Achievement levels in the U.S. are not commensurate with spending, however. Many nations exceed the United States in science and math test scores, for example."...
Head Start fails kids and taxpayers: Head Start Impact Evaluation Report Finally Released. Since 1965, taxpayers have spent more than $180 billion on Head Start. Yet, over the decades, this Great Society relic has failed to improve academic outcomes for the children it was designed to help. [...] President Obama has pledged to use only one test when determining which education programs to fund: "It's not whether an idea is liberal or conservative," Obama stated, "but whether it works." HHS's third-grade follow-up evaluation makes it unequivocally clear that Head Start fails that test. HHS has released definitive evidence that the federal government's 48-year experiment with Head Start has failed children and left taxpayers a tab of more than $180 billion.
