HSLDA reports New Nationwide Study Confirms Homeschool Academic Achievement.

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  • Overall the study showed significant advances in homeschool academic achievement as well as revealing that issues such as student gender, parents’ education level, and family income had little bearing on the results of homeschooled students.
  • There was little difference between the results of homeschooled boys and girls on core scores.
  • Household income had little impact on the results of homeschooled students.
  • The education level of the parents made a noticeable difference, but the homeschooled children of non-college educated parents still scored in the 83rd percentile, which is well above the national average.
  • Whether either parent was a certified teacher did not matter.
  • Parental spending on home education made little difference.
  • In short, the results found in the new study are consistent with 25 years of research, which show that as a group homeschoolers consistently perform above average academically. The Progress Report also shows that, even as the numbers and diversity of homeschoolers have grown tremendously over the past 10 years, homeschoolers have actually increased the already sizeable gap in academic achievement between themselves and their public school counterparts-moving from about 30 percentile points higher in the Rudner study (1998) to 37 percentile points higher in the Progress Report (2009).
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