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African American Homeschooling, Increasing the Odds

According to the Manhattan Institute, The national graduation rate for the public school class of 2000 was 69%. The rate for white students was 76%; for Asian students it was 79%; for African-American students it was 55%; for Hispanic students it was 53%; and for Native Americans it was 57%. In addition, Florida had the lowest graduation rate among white public school students with 60%, followed by Tennessee, Georgia, and Alaska. (Black graudation rates are even lower) As a parent of black children living in Georgia, you could say that the odds really are against my kids. Now this is … Continue reading →

In a Rush to Graduate Your Kids from Homeschool?

My family had a conversation last night about when we would graduate the kids from homeschool. We started talking about SAT scores for my son that we should receive on Tuesday and the fact that we couldn’t graduate him next year if he took the PSAT and qualified for the National Merit Program (he took the SAT first as a practice for the PSAT). Because the PSAT had to be taken in your Jr. year to qualify for the National Merit program, we were trying to figure out if he had to wait another year to graduate even though he … Continue reading →