Private Education for the Public Good: 2014 Report

1,500 US young adults aged 24-39 (about 500 public school graduates as the comparison baseline against about 1,000 private and home school graduates), GfK/Knowledge Networks probability panel

US adults aged 24-39 by high school sector attended. The homeschool cell exists in the data but is not analysed in this report.

The second wave of the Cardus Education Survey, same instrument and same panel vendor as the 2011 report. Sought here because the task named it as a source of homeschool attainment findings; it is not one. The report deliberately withheld its homeschool results, offering only the sentence that "some of our homeschooling findings raise questions about the civic skills and engagement of homeschooling graduates" and promising a dedicated homeschool analysis later. That later analysis is Sikkink & Skiles 2015, which pools the 2011 and 2014 waves and IS recorded in this archive. The report itself could not be retrieved — the Cardus site no longer serves it and no archived copy was located — so this record rests on two independent published reviews (Gaither's Homeschooling Research Notes and the Coalition for Responsible Home Education) plus the internal evidence of Sikkink & Skiles 2015, which states that the current paper is the first to report the homeschool findings from these data.

No homeschool achievement or attainment findings are reported. The 2014 wave's homeschool results were held back from publication and released only in the later Sikkink & Skiles report; the single published hint was that they "raise questions about the civic skills and engagement of homeschooling graduates". Recorded so that the withholding is visible rather than silently absent — a widely cited school-sector survey that had homeschool data and chose not to publish it is a fact about this literature, not a gap in this archive.

Not assessable — no homeschool estimates are reported. The design shares the Cardus family's limitation of having no prior-achievement or childhood-ability measure.

Not applicable — no homeschool estimates were published to replicate. The underlying 2014 data were subsequently analysed for homeschoolers in Sikkink & Skiles 2015.