by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Abuse, Public schools, Research
Rodger Williams June 12, 2025 Most people assume that public schools protect students because the schools’ mandatory reporters contact Child Protective Services (CPS) about suspected child abuse. That assumption is wrong. Federal child abuse data displays no...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams August 12, 2020 Editor’s note: See Percentiles for help interpreting the graph. The graph compares the public school academic achievement curve on the left with the homeschool achievement curve on the...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Academics, Research
Rodger Williams July 5, 2014 Home educated students have long been recognized by research as scoring substantially higher than expected, on average, on nationally normed achievement tests. We will take a deeper look at the mechanics of how that works out in practice....
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...
by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Evidence, Issues
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. June 1, 2020 Excerpt: Social science research (e.g., education research) almost never sees “the perfect study.” While teaching research methods at the university graduate and undergraduate levels across seven years, I explained to my...
