9 News had a report on homeschooling. The article was mostly a debate about two styles of homeschooling, unschooling and more structured homeschooling. Personally I think every child is different and so is the approach that will work best for their education. At the bottom of the article they had a few statistics about what adult homeschoolers are doing.
The National Home Education Research Institute, a non-profit research group, recently completed a comprehensive study of how former homeschoolers are faring in their adult lives. Of the 7,306 participants, 5,254 had been homeschooled for at least seven years.
Some findings:
• 74.2 percent had attained some college courses or higher in their education. In the general U.S. population in the same age range, the number is 46.2 percent.
• 71 percent of the former homeschoolers are participating in an ongoing community activity, compared to 39 percent of all U.S. adults.
• 55 percent say they would homeschool their own children.
For the 9news article:
For the full report about homeschoolers as adults:
http://www.nheri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=47
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