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Home Schooling

Title: Study Finds Home Schoolers Are Top Achievers on Tests

Author: Lynn Schnaiberg

Source: Education Week on the Web, March 31, 1999

This article reports on a study on home schooling that indicates that home schoolers score higher on standardized tests than their public and private school peers. The higher scores occur in every subject and at every grade level. The research was conducted by an outside researcher not connected to the Home School Legal Defense Association, which underwrote the funding for the study. The article includes demographic information about the home schoolers in the study, mentions some of the study's limitations, and briefly describes the study's implications for schools.

Title: Plug and Learn

Author: Mary Ann Zehr

Source: Teacher Magazine, January 2000

This article reports on the use of online courses as part of home schooling curriculum. The author examines this growing trend from the point of view of home schooling parents, home schoolers, teachers, home schooling advocates, and online school administrators.