Though homeschooling is not a new concept and has been around for many years, our nation’s ancestors believed that the nation’s democracy could be sustained with public education. The history of America has proven that there is nothing wrong with homeschooling children. Furthermore, America’s country was founded on principles of freedom and individual rights which should also extend to the education of our children. Countless people may believe that public education works for their children, although there are also others out there who feel homeschooling is the best option. Although, there can be opposing aspects to both public schooling and homeschooling, both types of education can survive and thrive side by side if allowed. Although some
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Cogan (2010), provided a study of homeschooled students when it came to pre-college academics, there was a slight higher ACT-Composite score in homeschoolers compared to the overall group of students. This study came from a first term of academic studies using a certain selection of factors of different types of high schools, such as private, public and homeschoolers. Homeschoolers where then shown to have earned a higher GPA, which was compared to the overall group (Cogan, 2010). Though these results were taken from only one institution, it shows a positive outlook for homeschooled students and how they are able to excel academically. It is important that the researchers try to understand what the academic outcome will be for homeschoolers (Cogan, 2010). Homeschooling is growing each day and institutions are trying to understand how the homeschooling students can still excel in academics, though they are taught at …show more content…
Eleven different studies have been completed in which researchers have explored different perspectives and angles which then justifies why parents homeschool. Parental involvement has been shown to be a catalyst for success in the students. Three different dimensions provided evidence on how homeschooling worked on improving the child’s learning (Kraftl, Jolly (2012); Vigalant, 2014). First, there was extra one-on-one learning at home, though in some public schools they are unable to provide this as there is a higher ratio of students in classrooms. Second, homeschooling can provide a safe and healthy environment without the frequency of distractions, though public schools there are distractions just as there would be at home (Kraftl, 2013). Teaching children at home can help them to have a chance to not only learn what is in the books, but basic home life learning skills as well. For example, the life skills learned at home such as cooking, learning to have projects to work on and fix around the house and learning about the world outside and around them are a few ways homeschooled children learn. A few examples of outside skills would be gardening, learning about nature, helping take care of pets or animals if they lived on a farm or ranch. Kraft notes that being taught at home can help homeschooled children to grow emotionally when dealing with different situations, and
Cogan (2010), provided a study of homeschooled students when it came to pre-college academics, there was a slight higher ACT-Composite score in homeschoolers compared to the overall group of students. This study came from a first term of academic studies using a certain selection of factors of different types of high schools, such as private, public and homeschoolers. Homeschoolers where then shown to have earned a higher GPA, which was compared to the overall group (Cogan, 2010). Though these results were taken from only one institution, it shows a positive outlook for homeschooled students and how they are able to excel academically. It is important that the researchers try to understand what the academic outcome will be for homeschoolers (Cogan, 2010). Homeschooling is growing each day and institutions are trying to understand how the homeschooling students can still excel in academics, though they are taught at …show more content…
Eleven different studies have been completed in which researchers have explored different perspectives and angles which then justifies why parents homeschool. Parental involvement has been shown to be a catalyst for success in the students. Three different dimensions provided evidence on how homeschooling worked on improving the child’s learning (Kraftl, Jolly (2012); Vigalant, 2014). First, there was extra one-on-one learning at home, though in some public schools they are unable to provide this as there is a higher ratio of students in classrooms. Second, homeschooling can provide a safe and healthy environment without the frequency of distractions, though public schools there are distractions just as there would be at home (Kraftl, 2013). Teaching children at home can help them to have a chance to not only learn what is in the books, but basic home life learning skills as well. For example, the life skills learned at home such as cooking, learning to have projects to work on and fix around the house and learning about the world outside and around them are a few ways homeschooled children learn. A few examples of outside skills would be gardening, learning about nature, helping take care of pets or animals if they lived on a farm or ranch. Kraft notes that being taught at home can help homeschooled children to grow emotionally when dealing with different situations, and