The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at Homeschoolbuzz.com. There are many interesting articles to read but one that caught my eye was “16 Reasons to Read Aloud” at Works in Progress. I read aloud to my children often and this confirms why it’s a good idea. We tend to want to buy the newest and greatest new programs and forget what a great thing just reading out loud can be for our children’s education.
The Charlotte Mason Carnival is up at Homeschoolers. Oregon Style. The list is fairly short this time. Go see if anything catches your eye.
“A Review of the Homeschooling Literature” at Help! My Kids are Smarter than Me! is an interesting, although a tad intellectual, read. One of the things that caught my attention was this:
In the United States, at every grade level, home schooled students’ average score placed between the 82nd and the 92nd percentile in reading and reached the 85th percentile in math. Overall, test scores for home schoolers placed between the 75th and 85th percentiles. In contrast, public school students scored at the 50th percentile, while private school students’ scores ranged from the 65th to the 75th percentile.
And this one can help us all breath a sigh of relief and a possible talking point when those people look at you all horrified as they drop the big question- “what about socialization???!?”
Research also suggests that home schooled students are more sociable than their school peers, as well as more independent of peer values as they grow older.
I’ll leave you with this last article about a study in the United Kingdom about how father’s spending time with their children can effect, for the good, their children’s I.Q.
A big hat tip goes to Why Homeschool for highlighting the last two articles. I glean most of my articles of interest from them.
