Nthen.org
Title
NTHEN - Home
Description
About Homeschooling
While most Americans think homeschooling is a new phenomenon, it actually predates public education. In fact, public education was born as an idea to enable poor Americans equal opportunity to become educated. Even in the early discussions of “public” education, Adam Smith, author of Wealth of Nations, argued that parents were in the best position to decide how their children should be educated.
Today, homeschooling is on the rise as parents return to the heritage of early American education, centered on the Bible. It is estimated that there were 1.7 million to 2.1 million children being homeschooled in the 2002-2003 school year*.
Home-educated children tend to perform better on standardized tests, with their average scores well above the average scores of conventionally schooled children. Also, studies by the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) have shown that homeschooled children are quite involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, and community volunteer work. Parents of homeschooled children also tend to be more active in civic activities than public school parents, giving their children good role models.
