by Homeschooling Backgrounder | Research, Socialization
Richard G. Medlin June 19, 2013 Abstract: This article reviews recent research on homeschooled children’s socialization. The research indicates that homeschooling parents expect their children to respect and get along with people of diverse backgrounds, provide...
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 | Abuse, Research
Rodger Williams March 26, 2018 Some homeschool critics claim that no useful research results exist about homeschool child abuse rates, that we just do not know what these rates are. The fact that there has been no randomized sampling of the entire population of...
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 | Regulation, Research
Brian Ray March 15, 2018 Excerpt: A statistical analysis of 18 years of data from all the U.S. states found no relationship between the degree of state control or regulation of homeschooling and the frequency of abuse of homeschool students. That is, low-regulation...
