Posted on 09/02/2009 10:17:57 AM PDT by Arcy
Compared with other students, homeschoolers scored higher than the national average on this year’s ACT, a national standardized test used to gauge educational development and college readiness.
Like the SAT, ACT scores are used in the college admissions process to evaluate applicants. Virtually all colleges accept either test, Ed Colby, spokesman for the ACT, told CNSNews.com.
Scores are based on the 1.48 million students who graduated in 2009, Colby said. Among those students were 11,535 homeschoolers, he said.
Homeschoolers are further prepared for college because they must take initiative to accomplish projects, Slatter said.
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September 8 is National Home Schooling Day.
All kids attending public schools should be kept home that day.
another one for the list
I went to public school and hated it... I got a 29 on my ACT though... which was the second highest... the highest was a 31...
YES!
Poor teachers unions...those kids wont be mind-controlled by Obama’s minions.
And probably on the SAT, too!
If we took out all of the garbage public school teaches our kids would learn nothing.
that would be an improvement
Yeah but, what about socialization?
If they’re home schooled, how will they learn to be socialists?
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but this tells us little about the quality of a homeschool education. If grades are not normalized by the myriad of factors that can affect performance, the numbers are relatively meaningless.
LOL
We took that to be a Yes. My wife quit nursing (she is a Registered Nurse) for a year and brought him up 5 reading grade levels (tested) by homeschooling him.
A teacher in Montgomery County said he would never go to College. We are pleased to announce that he graduated from Valley Forge Military College (yes that Valley Forge) and Graduated Air-force Basic with honors, first out of 581. He is now a Staff Sargent and doing very well indeed!
Big Homeschooling BUMP!
>>If grades are not normalized by the myriad of factors that can affect performance, the numbers are relatively meaningless. <<
Yeah, that’s the excuse they always give when homeschoolers look good.
>>If they’re home schooled, how will they learn to be socialists?<<
LOL!!!
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I think the same group of students that do well when they are homeschooled would do well if they are public schooled because they have parents who care.
I think homeschooling is more efficient for parents who care. I have seen many times where my kids spend all day in school learning nothing and then have to be taught the material at home at night.
But for a parent that can barely read, homeschooling would suck.
We homeschooling parents concentrate on the basics. The other things fall into place.
My kids diagram sentences, they learn Latin and Greek, they drill times tables. These lessons are no longer taught in school, yet are skills that are very useful.
My kids do better on standardized tests because they have skills that transcend the lessons they are being taught and can cross to other subjects. It isn’t that the PS kids have a disadvantage, it’s that their curriculum has a disadvantage.
And for those parents who can’t speak English
http://www.aophomeschooling.com/switched-on-schoolhouse/overview.php
I think it puts the lie to anyone who says that homeschooling doesn’t provide a good education, however.
What do you mean by “normalized”?
The ACT & SAT have the same standards for everyone that takes them.
Of course, you’ll always hear the “self-selecting set” argument to discount the fact that homeschoolers AVERAGE in the 85th percentile of academic performance.
This is a bogus argument as well. It’s not just the “smart kids” or the “smart parents” who homeschool. Homeschooled kids are smart because they are homeschooled. They aren’t homeschooled because they’re smart.
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