| > | | | | home schooler’s national percentile mean |
| | | | was 84 for reading, 80 for language, 81 for math, |
| Home-schooling provides children with a superior | | | | 84 for science, and 83 for social studies." |
| education. Parents can quickly teach most kids the | | | | Several state departments of education also |
| basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic using | | | | conducted their own surveys on the academic |
| excellent, creative, learn-to-read, or learn-math | | | | achievement of home-schooled students. In 1987, |
| books, programs, or computer learning software. | | | | much to its embarrassment, the Tennessee |
| Once children become proficient readers, they can | | | | Department of Education found that |
| then study subjects they love in greater depth. If | | | | home-schooled children in second grade, on the |
| a child needs help on a special subject, parents | | | | average, scored in the 93rd percentile, while their |
| can occasionally call in a tutor. | | | | public school counterparts, on the average, scored |
| Many studies confirm that home-schooled kids | | | | in the 52nd percentile on the Stanford |
| learn more, learn better, and learn faster than | | | | Achievement Test (the SAT-9 is a |
| public-school children. Christopher J. Klicka, author | | | | well-respected battery of multiple-choice academic |
| of "The Right Choice: Homeschooling," cites a | | | | achievement tests for public-school students). |
| nationwide study of more than 2,163 | | | | These studies, and many others, confirm the fact |
| home-schooling families conducted in 1990 by the | | | | that home-schooling parents can give their kids a |
| National Home Education Research Institute: | | | | superior education. This shouldn’t surprise |
| The study found the average scores of the | | | | us. Home-schooling parents succeed where public |
| home school students were at or above the 80th | | | | schools fail because parents give loving, |
| percentile in all categories. This means that the | | | | personalized attention to their children, use |
| homeschoolers scored, on the average, higher | | | | innovative free-market educational materials, and |
| than 80 percent of the students in the nation. The | | | | nourish a love of learning in their kids. |