1. Home Schooling
... home schooled. The largest study so far by University of Maryland statistician Lawrence M. Rudner, examined some 20,000 home-schooled students from 50 states. These students scored higher on standardized tests than public and private school students in every subject and at every grade level. The longer their parents had home schooled them, the better they did. The results shocked Rudner ... himself, who initially believed that home schoolers were a bunch of "conservative nuts." He has since changed his mind. On national tests of skills and achievement, Rudner found, home-schooled kids s...
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