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Forward this post on to those naysayers in your life! This article by Ian Slatter of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association couldn’t be more interesting. He writes about the conclusions of several extensive studies comparing the academic achievement of homeschoolered students vs. public schooled students.

In short, the results found in the new study are consistent with 25 years of research, which show that as a group homeschoolers consistently perform above average academically. The Progress Report also shows that, even as the numbers and diversity of homeschoolers have grown tremendously over the past 10 years, homeschoolers have actually increased the already sizeable gap in academic achievement between themselves and their public school counterparts-moving from about 30 percentile points higher in the Rudner study (1998) to 37 percentile points higher in the Progress Report (2009).

The overwhelming conclusion is what I see every year time and time again as I am doing portfolio evaluations: that homeschooled kids are heads and shoulders above their public schooled counterparts. And the gap is widening.