Annotated Bibliography On Homeschooling

Gathercole, R. (2005, August ). Homeschooling's true colors: investigating the myths--and the facts--about America's fastest-growing educational movement. Mothering Magazine. 56
In the Article “Homeschoolings true colors:investigating the myths-and the facts- about America’s fastest-growing educational movement”, by Rachel Gathercole, the author writes about common beliefs or conceptions the general populous has on home schooling. With each “myth” Gathercole rebuttals using facts that essentially disproves the common misconception. Using experts and available public data, Gathercole illuminates the fact that homeschooling is viable alternative method of education for children k-12, and that said children are just as educated as public school
The Washington Times. Retrieved from https://www.nheri.org/research/research-facts-on-homeschooling.html This article by the Washington Times, by an unknown author, it goes over the a recent study conducted by Dr. Brian Ray and his findings. In his study conducted in 2009, Dr. Ray found that out of 12,000 children from all over the United States when given 3 well known standard tests: the California Achievement Test, the Iowa Basic Skills, and The Stanford Achievement Test. The result separated into 5 sections including: Math, Social Studies, Science, Reading, and Language. Public school students scored within the 50th percentile in each subject, whereas homeschooled students scored between the 85-90th percentile. The difference between the two is staggering and vastly different, and it’s the idea that the reason is directly related to the learning environment to which each homeschooled child is exposed to. Even when homeschooled children had parents who were certified instructors when compared to that of children whose parents weren’t certified instructors, there was virtually no difference within the test scores. When income was asked if that would factor into the homeschooling factor, on average the household income was anywhere from 35,000$ - 77,000$
(2001). Undoing the “Us vs. Them” of Public and HomeSchooling. Education Digest, 66(9),41-45. In this article “Undoing the ‘Us vs. Them’ of Public and Homeschooling”, Romanowski looks at the two forms of education and tries to appeal to the two sides and persuade them that they don’t have to view themselves as competitors, rather they view themselves as complements of one another. The author looks at beneficial sides of trying to combine homeschooling with a formal style of a public school setting. His intentions of combining the best of both worlds essentially. As the title implies, many school systems view themselves independent forms of education from homeschoolers. Romanowski begins offer the idea that dual enrollment is a viable option of bringing the two forms of education together. While Romanowski understands that the two forms of education are fine on their own, they still have gaps in their systems that have effects on the students; yet he feels that these gaps can be filled by way of dual