The home schoolers in the study made more progress overall than public school students as measured by standardized tests. They made impressive gains in reading and written language. In math, the home school results were similar to public schools. This achievement by home schoolers comes in spite of the fact that their parents had neither special training nor help from the public schools. In fact, two of the parents had not even graduated from high school.
Home schooling continues to grow in popularity across the nation.
Experts say that about 5 to 10 percent of children have learning disabilities. This could put the number of home schooled children with learning disabilities between 62,000 and 123,000 children nationwide.