No teacher, no “educator”, NEA union member, or college professor of education has ever, even once, posted even ONE link to any study that separates what is learned in the classroom from hard work done IN THE HOME by the parents, the child doing homework and projects, and paid and unpaid tutors. A Stanford University professor of education e-mailed me and told me these studies have NEVER been done!
Honestly....up to THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS /year/kid on an unproven and untested program of government schooling? Does this make any sense to you as an engineer?
As for homeschooling:
It is a grassroots movement that has now grown to be 4% of the school-aged population. It is composed of moms and pops meeting in their local church basements, and you seriously expect scientifically rigorous studies to be organized and funded from this group of people? Really?
The truth is that if “professional” teachers, the NEA, and professors of education ( all of whom have bottomless pits of taxpayer dollars) were curious people they would have, long ago, fully studied homeschooling, adults who have been homeschooled, and homeschooling methods. They don't because on literally pennies a day ordinary moms and pops are putting to shame what is euphemistically called “education” in the socialist-entitlement government indoctrination camps.
Finally...It is my guess that if every government school were permanently closed tomorrow, the same kids getting and education today would get one tomorrow. The same kids not getting and education would not get one tomorrow. Why? Because the real educators are and the real education happens IN THE HOME and has been since the dawn of humanity.
Course_Framework is simple lightweight software designed to be an easy place to hang instructional content. Content can be images, video, text and tests. The software enables the teacher to quickly and easily assemble a web page with a video lecture of any length accompanied by a test which may be rich with images in both the questions and the answers. Test questions can be either multiple choice or essay type answers. Multiple selections are supported and the multiple choice parts of tests are scored automatically. Scoring essay questions is well beyond the scope of this program.
Student test results are shown both graphically, to enable the teacher to see the results for all the students at once, and as individual tests by pressing the button by the graph with the student's name on it. The student's actual test persists in the software until explicitly destroyed. A selection of filters are provided to enable the teacher to easily navigate the sea of data.
Courses are divided into multiple sections. There is no practical limit to the number of sections. Each section starts with a video which you create or provide. This video must be available on a web server. The easiest way to do this is to upload the video to YouTube.com. If you don't have a video for the material, images or text can be provided instead.
Each section has an associated test. A test may have as many questions on it as you care to type (or your students will tolerate). Questions can be multiple choice with up to 8 answers (there have to be limits somewhere) and multiple correct answers are supported. Correct answers are selected while making up the question and are stored with the question itself. Images and HTML (except for forms and inputs) can be part or all of the question's text and answers. Essay answers are supported but not scored. Questions can be formulated as fast as you can type and find the appropriate images.
Sir, Please as an engineer I need empirical evidence. Do you have studies from an unbiased source or not? Please do not resort to red herrings and straw men arguments. Either YOU have the studies I asked for or you don’t.