Soldier4Christ
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2008, 03:55:21 PM » |
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Keep in mind that the above survey is a personal opinion survey and does not have anything to do with actual statistics.
Home School Legal Defense Association recently asked The College Board, publisher of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), if they could tell us how home schoolers were doing on this college preparatory test. The following information is excerpted from the College Board's May 2, 2001 fax.
The College Board only has data on home-schooled SAT-takers in the high school graduating classes of 1999 and 2000.
The numbers and percentages of home-schooled SAT takers has risen slightly in those two years:
* In 1999, 3,116 of 1,220,130 high school graduates with SAT scores (0.25 percent) said they were home-schooled.
* In 2000, 5,663 of 1,260,278 high school graduates with SAT scores (0.45 percent) said they were home-schooled.
In 2000, the group of home-schooled SAT takers also had higher SAT averages:
* The average SAT scores of home-schooled students were 568 Verbal and 532 Math, above the national averages of 505 Verbal and 514 Math.
* Among home schoolers---men's scores were 568 Verbal and 554 Math (vs. 507 Verbal and 533 Math nationwide); and women's scores were 568 Verbal and 513 Math (vs. 504 Verbal and 498 Math nationwide).
* Males were 46 percent of both the home-schooled and the national SAT populations, and women comprised 54 percent of both populations.
* FACT: Homeschool students are performing at one or more grade levels above their age-level public and private school peers (Rudner, 1999).
* FACT: By eighth grade, the average home-educated student "performs four grade levels above the national average" (Basham, 2001, 12).
* FACT: Homeschool students have consistently surpassed the national averages for ACT (22.7 vs. 21) and SAT scores (1,083 vs. 1,016) (Basham, 2001, 12).
* FACT: Of the general U.S. population ages 18 to 24, "46.2% had attained some college courses or higher" while "74.2% of the home-educated had attained some college courses or higher" (Ray, 2004).
* FACT: Over 900 public and private colleges and universities readily accept homeschool applicants including many prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale (Bunday, 2000).
# FACT: The typical homeschooled pupil engages in 5.2 extracurricular social activities outside the home like sports, church groups, dance, scouts, play groups, etc. (Basham, 2001, 13).
# FACT: 71% of homeschooled adults actively participate in ongoing community service projects compared to 39% of the general population (Ray, 2004).
# FACT: Home-educated students have significantly lower behavioral problems than their conventional school peers and have a higher self-esteem (NHERI, 2004).
# FACT: Homeschooled children are "more mature and better socialized than are those sent to either public or private school" and data suggests they are "friendlier than their public school peers, as well as more independent of peer values as they grow older." They are also found to be "happier, better adjusted, more thoughtful, competent, and sociable children" (Basham, 2001. 14).
# FACT: Each state has at least one homeschool association and 85% of homeschoolers either belong to one or plan to join one. Such organizations "offer students the chance to interact with other homeschoolers" of various ages (Basham, 2001, 14).
# FACT: Dr. Knowles, from the University of Michigan, found that of the home-educated adults he interviewed for his study, none were unemployed or on welfare. 94% stated that their homeschooling had prepared them for life as an independent person. 79% indicated that they were better able to "interact with individuals form different levels of society," and nearly all would home school their own children (NHERI, 2004).
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