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Schnaiberg Lynn, Study Finds Home Schoolers Are Top Achievers on Tests, Education week online, 31 march 1999
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"Students schooled at home score higher on standardized tests than their public and private school peers in every subject and at every grade level, according to a report that is being billed as the largest study of its kind.
Underwritten by a $35,000 grant from the Purcellville, Va.-based Home School Legal Defense Association, the study is based on 20,760 home-schooled students from 50 states.
The U.S. Department of Education estimates that more than 1 million students nationwide are home-schooled; other estimates range from 700,000 to 2 million.
Nearly 88 percent of home schoolers' parents continued their education after high school, compared with 50 percent for the nation as a whole. And the median income for home-school families was $52,000 vs. $36,000 for all U.S. families with children".
L'étude complète est disponible également: Rudner, Lawrence M., Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Volume 7 Number 8, March 23, 1999
Schnaiberg Lynn,Home Schooling Queries Spike After Shootings, Education week online, 9 june 1999
(extraits: ) In the weeks after a deadly school shooting spree in Colorado--and the wave of bomb scares and threats of violence against other schools that followed--national home school leaders say they are seeing a spike in parent requests for home schooling information.
Zehr, Mary Ann, More Home Schooling Parents
Turn To Online Courses for Help, Education week online, 20 octobre 1998 (*)
(extraits: ) For $2,250 a year, Devon, 13, is being taught by an online private school called Willoway CyberSchool.
The Wards are among a growing number of parents who are relying on online courses to make home schooling easier or, in some cases, possible. While most home schooling parents use such courses to supplement their children's learning, some depend on them for a full curriculum.
or a full curriculum.
Such an arrangement contradicts what should be the purpose of home schooling, said Michael P. Farris, the president of the Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville.
"The essence of home schooling is about the interaction between parent and child," he said.
Devon: "I found that I've learned more than in the public schools for a long time," he said. "In public schools, they're always trying to teach you the same thing over and over again. At Willoway, there's always something new."
"Homeschooling Out of Fear."
homeschooling resources from Home Education Magazine.
"Homeschooling Families: Ready for the Next Decade," from the National Homeschool Association.
