barefootmamax4

I have a friend who currently does a school at home and was asking if
there is any written documentation or statistics showing the success of
unschoolers vs homeschoolers. She mentioned HSLDA or some similar site
that that says homeschooled kids score higher on standardized tests
than schooled kids.(85th percentile?) I'm guessing probably not since
most unschoolers are not doing the standardized tests,but maybe ones
who take the SAT?
-Kelly

Barbara Perez

The thing is, most unschoolers will tell you that they measure success
differently from what can be gauged by something like a standardized test
(including the SATs). Happiness and satisfaction with one's life isn't
quantifiable in percentiles. I'm not saying that unschoolers' scores
wouldn't be high - only that it's sort of besides the point, kwim?

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:43 PM, barefootmamax4 <barefootmamax4@...>
wrote:

> I have a friend who currently does a school at home and was asking if
> there is any written documentation or statistics showing the success of
> unschoolers vs homeschoolers. She mentioned HSLDA or some similar site
> that that says homeschooled kids score higher on standardized tests
> than schooled kids.(85th percentile?) I'm guessing probably not since
> most unschoolers are not doing the standardized tests,but maybe ones
> who take the SAT?
> -Kelly
>
>
>


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