<p>It certainly can’t be news that homeschooled children whose parents have a poor educational background outperform similarly situated public school children. The latter is a huge group, including parents who are involved and supportive and parents who have completely checked out. The former is a small group, consisting almost entirely of parents who are deeply involved (obviously), and who in most cases have to jump through multiple regulatory hoops to homeschool their kids. There may be a few exceptional cases of neglectful homeschoolers, but not many. So of course the homeschoolers should outperform their peer group as a whole. They would outperform their peer group if they went to public school, too.</p>