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Does Homeschooling or Private Schooling Promote Political Intolerance?

Does Homeschooling or Private Schooling Promote Political Intolerance?

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Research, Socialization

Albert Cheng reviewed by Brian Ray January 10, 2014 Excerpt: Political tolerance is “… defined as the willingness to extend basic civil liberties to political or social groups that hold views with which one disagrees” (p. 49). The researcher used an...
Academic Achievement of Homeschool Students: A Review of Peer-reviewed Research

Academic Achievement of Homeschool Students: A Review of Peer-reviewed Research

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research

Brian Ray September 3, 2018 Excerpt: During the past five years or so, negative critics of homeschooling and of homeschool advocacy have claimed that research on homeschooling tells us almost nothing (e.g., about academic achievement or test scores). More recently,...
National Study on Homeschool Child Abuse

National Study on Homeschool Child Abuse

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Research

Brian Ray March 15, 2023 Excerpt: First, [Ray and Shakeel] obtained a nationally representative sample. Second, they collected data from the adult sample that included the full year-by-year 13-year schooling history and demographics during both childhood and...
Falling through the cracks: Public school vs. homeschool

Falling through the cracks: Public school vs. homeschool

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research

Rodger Williams April 24, 2018 Updated November 4, 2023  Homeschool academic achievement — as measured by standardized tests — is normally distributed, just like public school academic achievement. Not only is the homeschool curve the same shape as the...
National Homeschool Achievement Data Reliability

National Homeschool Achievement Data Reliability

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Research

Rodger Williams October 1, 2024 A recurring criticism of the nationwide studies on homeschool academic achievement — conducted by Dr. Brian Ray and the National Home Education Research Institute — is that participants were self-selected. That is, the data...
Five Unfounded Assumptions Embodied in Homeschool Regulation

Five Unfounded Assumptions Embodied in Homeschool Regulation

by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Regulation

Rodger Williams October 3, 2020 Unfounded assumption #1: Depriving children of the opportunity to homeschool does not harm them Editor’s note: See Percentiles for help interpreting the graph. The chart shows homeschooling gives the same academic...
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