Education Reform: Home-schooling Improves Adult Literacy
By Mimi Rothschild
When it comes to improving overall adult literacy, home-schooling methods have succeeded where public school educating methods have otherwise failed. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of children attend public schools, there has been little improvement in overall adult literacy; parents that home-school their children can rest assured in knowing that the improvements that do exist in adult literacy are displayed in children that have been home-schooled. Clearly, parents interact closely with their children during the home-schooling process and it is this interaction and restored parental control that allows students to thrive in a home-school setting while gaining outstanding communication skills.
Students that are home-schooled have a better understanding of a variety of literature and will most assuredly exhibit a stronger hold on document literature, prose literature and quantitative literature. Why? Well, for one thing, the home-schooled student utilizes more text than the student that attends an average public school. Parents who home-school their children supplement most or all home-school teaching with useful texts. Such texts promote literacy in the home-schooled student and encourages the student to read more and often. Without a doubt, home-schooling techniques and resources help home-schooled students achieve a proficient level in terms of literacy.
What is truly frightening when viewing the most current count of literate public school students is the vast differences between various ethnic groups and literacy. Current numbers reveal that minority groups have showed less improvement in literacy than Caucasian students in the past few years. Nevertheless, when children are home-schooled there are no ethnic differences to consider. There are no interferences or differences in the quality of education that a home-schooled child receives, no matter the ethnicity. Why is this so? The truth is simple: every parent that chooses to home-school their child shows an active interest in their child's education, and that active interest not only exhibits itself in increased literacy skills, but in every educational area that a home-school child pursues.
The care and attention a child receives while being home-schooled cannot be surpassed, and that care and attention displays itself in a variety of beneficial forms. First, home-schooled students show advanced literacy skills, advanced communication skills, and above-average organization skills as well. Such skills follow the home-schooled student into adulthood where they can utilize such skills when they become competent, industrious, creative and literate members of society.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling mother, writer, children's rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of home education company Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of 28 years reside with their 8 children right outside Philadelphia, PA.
Rothschild launched Learning By Grace, Inc. because she believed that our nation's public school system has failed parents and students. Learning By Grace, Inc. offers online education through a multimedia-rich curriculum to PreK-12 children across the country and throughout the world.
An accomplished author, Rothschild has written books regarding education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Homeschooling News Café Blog consists of the most current and relevant education news.Electronic reproduction of this article is permitted if content is published unchanged, appropriate credit is given, and the article title links to corresponding article webpage.
