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12-05-2021, 07:59 PM
So Harvard has Finally Caught up with the real world.
New Harvard Study: Homeschoolers Turn Out Happy, Well-Adjusted, and Engaged
https://fee.org/articles/new-harvard-study-homeschoolers-turn-out-happy-well-adjusted-and-engaged/
https://archive.md/c5qKQ
Homeschooled children fared better than children who attended public schools in many categories.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Researchers at Harvard University just released findings from their new study showing positive outcomes for homeschooled students. Writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, Brendan Case and Ying Chen of the Harvard Human Flourishing Program concluded that public school students “were less forgiving and less apt to volunteer or attend religious services than their home-schooled peers.”
The scholars analyzed data of over 12,000 children of nurses who participated in surveys between 1999 and 2010 and found that homeschooled children were about one-third more likely to engage in volunteerism and have higher levels of forgiveness in early adulthood than those children who attended public schools. Homeschooled children were also more likely to attend religious services in adulthood than children educated in public schools, which the researchers noted is correlated with “lower risks of alcohol and drug abuse, depression and suicide.”
The new findings offer a stark contrast to the portrayal of homeschoolers by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet, who notoriously called for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling last year—just before the US homeschool population ballooned to more than 11 percent of the overall school-age population, or more than five million students, in the wake of the coronavirus response.
In their Journal Op-Ed, Case and Chen challenged their colleague.
“The picture of the home-schooled student that emerges from the data doesn’t resemble the socially awkward and ignorant stereotype to which Ms. Bartholet and others appeal. Rather, home-schooled children generally develop into well-adjusted, responsible and socially engaged young adults,” they wrote....
New Census Data Show Homeschooling Tripled During the Pandemic—And One Key Group is Driving the Surge
https://fee.org/articles/us-census-homeschooling-triples-diversifies-during-pandemic-response/
Mom Entrepreneurs Share How They Homeschool and Grow Their Businesses
https://fee.org/articles/mom-entrepreneurs-share-how-they-homeschool-and-grow-their-businesses/
New Harvard Study: Homeschoolers Turn Out Happy, Well-Adjusted, and Engaged
https://fee.org/articles/new-harvard-study-homeschoolers-turn-out-happy-well-adjusted-and-engaged/
https://archive.md/c5qKQ
Homeschooled children fared better than children who attended public schools in many categories.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Researchers at Harvard University just released findings from their new study showing positive outcomes for homeschooled students. Writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, Brendan Case and Ying Chen of the Harvard Human Flourishing Program concluded that public school students “were less forgiving and less apt to volunteer or attend religious services than their home-schooled peers.”
The scholars analyzed data of over 12,000 children of nurses who participated in surveys between 1999 and 2010 and found that homeschooled children were about one-third more likely to engage in volunteerism and have higher levels of forgiveness in early adulthood than those children who attended public schools. Homeschooled children were also more likely to attend religious services in adulthood than children educated in public schools, which the researchers noted is correlated with “lower risks of alcohol and drug abuse, depression and suicide.”
The new findings offer a stark contrast to the portrayal of homeschoolers by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet, who notoriously called for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling last year—just before the US homeschool population ballooned to more than 11 percent of the overall school-age population, or more than five million students, in the wake of the coronavirus response.
In their Journal Op-Ed, Case and Chen challenged their colleague.
“The picture of the home-schooled student that emerges from the data doesn’t resemble the socially awkward and ignorant stereotype to which Ms. Bartholet and others appeal. Rather, home-schooled children generally develop into well-adjusted, responsible and socially engaged young adults,” they wrote....
New Census Data Show Homeschooling Tripled During the Pandemic—And One Key Group is Driving the Surge
https://fee.org/articles/us-census-homeschooling-triples-diversifies-during-pandemic-response/
Mom Entrepreneurs Share How They Homeschool and Grow Their Businesses
https://fee.org/articles/mom-entrepreneurs-share-how-they-homeschool-and-grow-their-businesses/