Evidence for the Academic Superiority of Home Schooling

• Look at NHERI Fact Sheets for information and documentation including:
  • "[H]ome educated students to be scoring, on average, at or above the 80th percentile in all areas on standardized achievement tests."
  • "[H]ome school students in Washington consistently score at the 66th percentile on the Stanford Achievement Test, with their strongest scores in science, listening, vocabulary, and word reading.
  • "Home education students in Montana scored at the 72nd percentile on standardized achievement tests.
  • "The State of Tennessee (1988) reported that the home educated in that state averaged about the 83rd percentile in reading and about the 77th percentile in math on standardized achievement tests."
  • "The state of Oregon (1988) found that 73% of the home school students who were tested scored above average."
  • "[The] home educated in Pennsylvania score, on average, at the 86th percentile in reading and the 73rd percentile in math."
  • "The largest data set on the academic success of the home educated reveals positive things. 16,311 students from across the country were tested with the nationally normed Iowa Test of Basic Skills. The nationwide average for the home schooled on the Basic Battery (i.e., reading, language, and math) was the 77th percentile. They were at the 79th percentile in reading, the 73rd in language, and the 73rd in math."
  • "Canada's largest study of its kind revealed similar findings on the academic success of the home educated. Dr. Brian Ray found the students scoring, on average, at the 80th percentile in reading, the 76th in language, and the 79th in math. Students whose parents were certified teachers did no better than the other students."
  • "Dr. Steven Duvall compared the academic engaged time (AET) and basic skill development of learning disabled students who were home educated to those in public school special education programs. Higher rates of AET and greater academic gains were made by the home educated."
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