Home-Schooled Pupils Outscore Counterparts

Students who are schooled at home fare better than public school pupils on most standardized tests, according to a national report.

The study by the National Home Education Research Institute, a Salem, Ore.-based advocacy group, is the largest survey to date on the nation's growing home-schooled population, a group that is often difficult to track.

Brian D. Ray, the study's author and the director of the institute, collected written questionnaire responses from the parents of 5,402 of the nation's estimated 1.23 million home-schooled children. Parents were also asked to send copies of their children's test scores...