[wintertime]

Doesn't anyone who supports mandatory testing have a problem with the power it gives the failing public school system over its chief rivals?

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Do you know why we don't have mandatory testing of private schools?

Answer: The government schools workers don't lobby for mandatory private school testing because they don't want to be embarrassed by the poor showing of the government schools.

For the same reason, I doubt that we will see mandatory testing of homeschoolers. The homeschoolers would leave the government school kids in the dust.

[longtermmemmory]

Does anyone have a comparison of sat scores of home schoolers vs private schools vs public schools?

I bet the first two have more college grads and above.

[JenB]

Well, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and the routine trouncing that our test scores gave the public schoolers didn't stop the law from requiring tests in 3rd, 5th, and 8th grades.

[SoftballMominVA]

Many states do have mandatory testing of home-schoolers. In Virginia, each home schooler is required to show progress via an objective instrument or a portfolio of work presented to the superintendent of the county/city in which the students reside. The most popular test is the Stanford - 9.