From our article in the Washington Post Outlook March 23, 2008:
Studies have shown that home-schooled children outperform the conventionally schooled not only on standardized academic tests but also on tests of social skills. This, I believe, isn’t because home-schoolers do things better than schools do them but because we do better things than schools do … Conventional schools are like the nation’s Rust Belt companies, designed in the 19th century but struggling to meet the standards of international competition today. School boards and administrators should be concentrating on ways to make schools more like home-schooling — not on ways to force home-schooled children to go back to schools. People who are free to think for themselves usually get together and find solutions that are better than what bureaucrats can devise.
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1 Laurent // Apr 10, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I wasn’t home-schooled and am not currently considering it, but as an entrepreneur, this seems very reasonable (provided the parents are able and willing to commit to and invest in that better solution - particularly for younger kids).
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