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Home Schooling Achievement
Reporting relevant data about the results of home schooling in a brief and easily accessible manner.

Home Schooling Works!
Findings of an independent study by Lawrence M. Rudner, Ph.D., Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation. (1999)

Home Education Across the United States
Study on home schooling, conducted by Dr. Brian D. Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute. (1997)

Links to other studies

Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream
Home schooling is an effective alternative to the public school system (2001)
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Home Schooling on the Threshold
A Survey of Research at the Dawn of the New Millennium by Dr. Brian Ray. (1999)


Home Education Across the United States
Does Spending Correlate with Achievement?
     A cost-benefit analysis reveals that an average of $546 spent per home school student per year yields an average 85th percentile ranking on test scores. Compare this to the average annual expenditure of $5,325 per public school student to achieve only an average 50th percentile ranking. These figures do not include capital expenditures, like buildings and land, etc. (Figure 9.0).
Figure 9.0

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Footnote: ** All cost-per-student amounts in this figure exclude capital costs.
     * United States Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (1996). Statistics in brief, June 1996; Revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education: School year 1993-1994. [From: Common core of data: National public education financial survey.] Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.


Copyright © 1997 Brian D. Ray & HSLDA
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