Rodger WilliamsNovember 21, 2022 Has School Choice hurt any homeschoolers to date? The short answer is “No.” A more perceptive answer is “No, because homeschoolers have erected barriers against harm from existing School Choice programs.” It is not an accident that homeschoolers have remained safe. School Choice is government-funded K-12 education where parents get to […]| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Rodger Williams February 24, 2023 In 2021, West Virginia passed a School Choice law that gave state education money to parents to spend on behalf of their children. It included homeschooled students. West Virginia homeschoolers worked hard to ensure the law had provisions protecting homeschoolers who do not take the government education money from accountability […]| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Public schools are often viewed as safe havens, but data tells a different story. This article exposes a critical vulnerability in the system. Children aren’t truly shielded once they’re inside the school walls. The post Why Public Schools Fail To Protect Students From Child Abuse (New Jersey) appeared first on Homeschooling Backgrounder.| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Public schools are often viewed as safe havens, but data tells a different story. This article exposes a critical vulnerability in the system. Children aren’t truly shielded once they’re inside the school walls.| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Brian D. Ray, Ph.D.September 9, 2020 Excerpt: McCracken and Coleman have provided an engaging look at the relative academic success of two types of public school students in Alaska. One group is engaged in government-run correspondence schooling and the other is in conventional institutional schools. Their study will likely add to the research base and […]| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Public schools are often viewed as safe havens, but data tells a different story. This article exposes a critical vulnerability in the system. Children aren’t truly shielded once they’re inside the school walls.| Homeschooling Backgrounder
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 right. The red arrows reflect the difference in achievement between public schooling and homeschooling. These arrows are all the same length since the homeschool curve is shifted as a whole to the right. This means that homeschooled […]| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Rodger WilliamsMarch 15, 2022 “School Choice” means parental education choices that are paid for by the government, with either direct payments or education tax credits. School Choice advocates often claim that homeschoolers will be protected from government restrictions under School Choice laws. A typical “protective” measure included in such laws is that funding recipients shall […]| Homeschooling Backgrounder
Rodger Williams May 12, 2021 The two invalid studies as described by homeschool critics Elizabeth Bartholet, Dr. Rachel Coleman, James Dwyer, Milton Gaither and Frank E. Vandervort promote the two invalid studies in their article for The Imprint in these terms: A study in Connecticut published in 2018 found that among children removed from the public schools ostensibly to be homeschooled, 36 […]| Homeschooling Backgrounder
