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Featured Studies
Reporting relevant data about the results of home schooling in a brief and easily accessible manner.
Findings of an independent study by Lawrence M. Rudner, Ph.D., Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation. (1999)
Study on home schooling, conducted by Dr. Brian D. Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute. (1997)
Links to other studies
Home schooling is an effective alternative to the public school system (2001)
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A Survey of Research at the Dawn of the New Millennium by Dr. Brian Ray. (1999)
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Is Family Income a Predictor of Academic Achievement for Home Schoolers?
Segmenting student test scores by family income shows that socioeconomic status is not a determinant of academic performance for home schoolers (Figure 8.0). Regardless of family income bracket, home school students score between the 82nd and 92nd percentiles.
According to some researchers and officials, family income has a significant impact on public school students’ scores. Concerned about a recent study of student achievement in the Denver public schools, a school board member wrote, “The conclusion is clear. Family income and class are stronger indicators of education success than race.”2
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Footnote: * See Ray (1997) for more detail about the non-equal-interval nature of a simple percentile scale which has distortion especially near the ends of the scale.
2 Denver Business Journal, February 21, 1997, p. 40A. See also, Coleman, James S., Thomas Hoffer, & Sally Kilgore, (1982) High school achievement: Public, Catholic, and private schools compared, New York, NY: Basic Books, and Snow, Catherine E., Wendy S. Barnes, Jean Chandler, Irene F. Goodman, & Lowry Hemphill, (1991) Unfulfilled expectations: Home and school influences on literacy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Copyright © 1997 Brian D. Ray & HSLDA
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