https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/#:~:te....
Unless they are using a diff. metric for education journals or they are relatively new, I would not consider this a reliable report
1. https://www.resurchify.com/all_ranking_details_2.php?id=7414
2. https://academic-accelerator.com/Impact-Factor-IF/Peabody-Jo....
3. https://www.scijournal.org/articles/good-impact-factor#:~:te....
This is a better study: https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S010...
Being homeschooled and unschooled myself, I got to see that first hand in other families. But I don't think it actually means that homeschooling/unschooling is universally better: plenty of people try it, find it doesn't work for them, and quit.
My best guess is it increases the variance of results more than the average, with some kids doing very well on it, and some very poorly. While that's good for society, it doesn't mean one can entirely replace the other.
This seems like it would lend itself to selection bias - only people for whom homeschooling is a good fit continue to pursue it.
Homeschooling/unschooling very likely works well for some (I think it worked well for me). But that doesn't mean it would work well on average.
> Qaqish (2007), on the other hand, examined the ACT math scores of college-bound students and found, while controlling for background variables, that the conventionally schooled performed slightly better than the home educated.