“Students being monitored by public school teachers score 33 percentile points LOWER.”
Superintendent Garrett Suggests “Monitoring” of Homeschoolers
http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/il/200912140.asp
“HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff recently wrote this letter to the editor of the Centralia Sentinel,” in reply to an article that suggested that the newspaper, “‘would like to see more monitoring of homeschooled students…’”
“Presumably Garrett envisions that homeschooled students would be monitored by public school teachers. According to large-scale scientific studies, students being monitored by public school teachers (i.e., public school students) score at the 50th percentile, on average, on standardized tests. But homeschooled students score at the 83rd percentile. The remarkable scores of homeschooled students would need to come down 33 percentile points to equal the scores of students already being monitored by public school teachers…”
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