A Growing Trend: Home Schooled Students Are Outperforming Peers In BIG Ways

By Vickie Ferguson | Sunday, 18 December 2022 05:15 AM
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A Growing Trend: Home Schooled Students Are Outperforming Peers In BIG Ways

The Daily Wire reports good news, noting homeschooled students who took a challenging standardized college entrance exam excelled over their peers enrolled in public and private schools.

Students taking the Classic Learning Test (CLT) are subjected to classic texts, “whose writings have had a lasting influence on culture and society,” versus the type of contemporary writing students are tested on when taking the standard SAT or ACT.

Professor Lisa Treleaven of Houston Christian University did an analysis of the outcome of the point breakdown students earned. The CLT allows students to earn a maximum of 120 points. Professor Treleaven noted homeschool students earned roughly 78 points, while private school students earned an average of 7 points. Charter school students received mean scores of 73. The lowest mean scores were made by public school students earning 66 points.

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Treleaven wrote, “This is consistent with prior research findings of superior academic performance of homeschool students compared to other school types.” The data used for the analysis of the Classic Learning Test was based on the scores of over 12,000 students between 2016 and 2021.

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The CLT exam is the creation of Jeremy Tate, who noted that homeschooled students had a freestyle structure for learning, giving them an advantage over students in structured private school settings.

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Tate told The Daily Wire, “Homeschooled students simply have more time for leisure reading.” We forget that the word school derives from Greek schole, originally meaning leisure. The connection between leisure and learning is profound. Factory model schooling is antithetical to leisure, but is common for homeschooled students whole are given the time and space to immerse themselves in great literature."

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Treleaven noted her study offers a large sample size for the test and because she does not have an “affiliation or compensation from homeschool or educational advocacy groups.” She also noted further research not relying on a self-selected group of students would be beneficial.

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According to data from the National Home Education Research Institute, homeschoolers tend to score between 15 to 30 percentile points higher than students in public schools.

Recent information from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed a drop in reading and math scores for nine-year-olds over the past two years.

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