Why Is It The Only Studies That Show Home-schooled Students Out-performing Public School Students Come From?

1. Thorcorn Says

   This research study published in an academic peer-reviewed journal was published in 2011. http://www.academicleadership.org/articl…
   Summary of Major Findings in This Study
   Demographics of the Families and Students
   The median income for home-educating families ($75,000 to $79,999) was similar to all married-couple families nationwide with one or more related children under age 18 (median income $74,049 in 2006 dollars; or roughly 78,490 in 2008 dollars).
   Homeschool parents have more formal education than parents in the general population; 66.3% of the fathers and 62.5% of the mothers had a college degree (i.e., bachelor’s degree) or a higher educational attainment. In 2007, 29.5% of all adult males nationwide ages 25 and over had finished college and 28.0% of females had done so.
   These homeschool families are notably larger – 68.1% have three or more children – than families nationwide.
   The percent of homeschool students in this study who are White/not-Hispanic (91.7%) is disproportionately high compared to public school students nationwide.
   Almost all homeschool students (97.9%) are in married couple families. Most home school mothers (81%) do not participate in the labor force; almost all home school fathers (97.6%) do work for pay.
   The median amount of money spent annually on educational materials is about $400 to $599 per home-educated student.
   Academic Achievement of Home-Educated Students in Grades K-12
   Homeschool student achievement test scores are exceptionally high. The mean scores for every subtest (which are at least the 80th percentile) are well above those of public school students.
   There are no statistically significant differences in achievement by whether the student has been home educated all his or her academic life, whether the student is enrolled in a full-service curriculum, whether the parents knew their student’s test scores before participating in the study, and the degree of state regulation of homeschooling (in three different analyses on the subject).
   There are statistically significant differences in achievement among homeschool students when classified by gender, amount of money spent on education, family income, whether either parent had ever been a certified teacher (i.e., students of non-certified parents did better), number of children living at home, degree of structure in the homeschooling, amount of time student spends in structured learning, and age at which formal instruction of the student began. However, of these variables, only parent education level explained a noticeable or practically significant amount of variance, 2.5%, in student scores; the other variables explained one-half of 1% or less of the variance.

2. How would I Know Says

   Actually pretty easy to do, since your question is based on your typical ignorance. Homeschooling has never been a majority of children of parents working in academia, it’s ALWAYS been primarily religion based.
   Perhaps you should ask this again in a way that doesn’t immediately make you look stupid.

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