HS FAQ 4
NOTE: This message was originally in conference “Home Education [FIDO]”
and was copied here by Ron Bowden.
NOTE: This message was originally in conference “Home Education [RIME]”
and was copied here by Ron Bowden.
Salutations from Ron Bowden:
Home Education – Frequently Asked Questions Page 4
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHILDREN
- Variable *** * Mean Value *
Age 8.24 Grade 3.25 Years taught at home since age 5 3.02 Years of public school before HS 3.36 Years of private school before HS 2.79 Years of public school after HS 2.31 Years of private school after HS 1.71 Grade thru which parents plan HS 10.88 ============================================== ATTENDANCE AT PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR HOMESCHOOLING CHILDREN * School Participation * * Percentage * Attended public school prior to home school 25.6 Attended private school prior to home school 24.4 Attended public school after home school 2.8 Attended private school after home school 3.0 ============================================== NATIONAL PERCENTILE SCORES ON STANDARDIZED ACHIEVEMENT TESTS * National * * Variable * * Percentile Mean * Total Reading 84th Total Listening 85th Total Language 80th Total Math 81st Science 84th Social Studies 83rd Basic Battery 82nd Complete Battery 82nd ============================================== LEGAL STATUS OF FAMILIES WITH RESPECT TO HOME EDUCATION STATE STATUTES * Status * * Percentage * Underground 15.3 Notified district, not attempting to comply fully 4.9 Satisfied statutory requirements 58.6 In current dispute about legal status 0.4 Other 20.7 ============================================= ACTIVITIES OF HOME-EDUCATED PERSONS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL * Activity * * Percentile * Junior college 17.2 Four-year college 33.3 Trade school 0.0 Business school 0.0 Full-time employment 12.1 Military 0.0 Other 37.4 ============================================ “[The homeschooling movement is] in effect, though certainly not by design – a laboratory for the intensive and long-range study of children’s learning and of the ways in which friendly and concerned adults can help them. It is a research project, done at no cost, of a kind for which neither the public schools nor the government could afford to pay.”- John Holt, “Schools and Home-schoolers: A Fruitful Partnership,” Phi Delta Kappan, Feb. 1983. What follows are listings from the growing body of research on homeschooling that address frequently voiced concerns. We chose these listings because they are either frequently cited in other works about homeschooling, or are more accessible to the general reader than other academic studies. Some universities and colleges will allow anyone to use their libraries, and they are more likely to have these journals and books than a public library. Some citations on this list appear in several categories because one study often covers many different questions about homeschooling.