by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Evidence, Issues
Paula BolyardMay 2, 2019 Excerpt: This happens every few years — someone trots out a collection of child abuse horror stories and blames the abuse on the fact that parents were permitted to keep their own children in their own homes without government...
by Rodger Williams | Issues, Mandated Reporter Visits
Home visiting is used as a strategy to deliver services to families in their homes. The visits may be designed to prevent or reduce a variety of problems. The federal government evaluates voluntary home visiting programs for families with children up...
by Rodger Williams | Issues, Mandated Reporter Visits
Some state lawmakers propose legislation to require home visits for homeschoolers from mandated reporters to check for child abuse. Their reasoning is that public school students are protected by mandated child abuse reporting at the school and that homeschooled...
by Rodger Williams | Issues, Mandated Reporter Visits
One of the delivery mechanisms for health services is voluntary nurse home visit programs. The federal government has an office which evaluates such programs for pregnant women and children from birth through five years of age. The evaluations cover eight separate...
by Rodger Williams | Evidence, Issues
The Coalition for Responsible Home Education does not agree with how I utilized their publicly available database of child abuse fatalities in my study titled “Homeschool Child Fatalities Fewer Than the National Average”. [F]ar from conducting original...
by Rodger Williams | Homeschooling, Issues
Rodger Williams December 14, 2018 How do homeschools compare with public schools on how well they prevent academic failures, as measured by standardized test scores? The average U.S. homeschool standardized test score is in the range of 65 to 80 percentiles, according...
