That's hared to say. I'd like to see a couple of citations on that. That said what is really solid is not public vs private schooling for instance but parental involvement. So for the research seems to point in that direction. I just found another fairly solid study that examined it. Solid in that in terms of experimental design etc it approaches adequacy.
As for home schooling, well parental involvement is moot. The parents are involved. However I'm rather skeptical about the outcomes. Lets face it except for a few exceptions home schooling is mostly done by amateurs not professionals. I am sure if for instance given the student teacher ratio found in home schooling situations, much better outcomes may be possible if using professionals. Similarly if you could have the same degree of parental involvement again I think that you'd have much better academic achievement with professionals than with amateurs. As an aside some interesting data was released recently on the Charter vs DC public schools. It would appear that across the board Charter schools have not lived up to their promise. Children in the DC school system showed a much better increases in Maths and Sciences than the Charter Schools in DC. for instance in http://www.publicschoolreview.com/articles/123 -- ...recent investigations conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University reveal that students' test scores may prove that public schools are now outperforming charter schools. -- Similar results have been found with private vs public schooling as well. Controlling for income and parental involvement, thee is no difference. I suspect that something similar will be found withe home schooling, despite the temper tantrums some (not you Scott) on this list will have over my last statement. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It is in the state's interest to ensure a minimal standard of >> education. Its also in the state's interest to ensure that the >> children are not abused or neglected. We may couch these in moral or >> legalistic terms, but the bottom line it that it is the concern of the >> state. > > > I am not debating what is or is not in the state's best interest. Eric > specifically stated that unless you are a trained/certified teacher, > you should not be allowed to homeschool. > > It is entirely possible, as studies have shown, for someone to > homeschool their children and meet (and often times exceed) the > 'minimal standard of education'. > > Eric seems to only care about those 'rights' he agrees with. > > > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319407 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
