| Venus and Serena Williams are phenomenally | | | | the US Department of Education re-enforced the |
| successful tennis masters. Their homeschooling | | | | findings of the Rudner study. The one on one |
| background enhances their exceptional | | | | tutorial-instructional approach leads to higher |
| professional expression. They are the progeny of | | | | academic proficiency. So the findings of the 1998 |
| their self taught father and coach, Richard | | | | Rudner research are strengthened again in 2007 |
| Williams. | | | | by the Rand Corporation research for the US |
| Lawrence Rudner PhD, led a landmark | | | | Department of Education. Other high achievers like |
| investigation into the benefits of homeschooling | | | | the Williams' sister include politicians, like Franklin D |
| circa 1998-99. In his association with the | | | | Roosevelt. Scientists Booker T Washington and |
| University of Maryland, he surveyed more than | | | | George Washington Carver were home schooled. |
| 20000 participants in schooling networks | | | | Military leader Douglas MC Arthur also home |
| throughout the United States. In this respected | | | | schooled. Contemporary pop music stars such as |
| study, Rudner revealed the beneficial profile of | | | | the Jonas Brothers and Hansen also were home |
| the home-school genre. His research | | | | instructed. Add comedian Whoopi Goldberg to |
| demonstrated high academic proficiencies of the | | | | these ranks as well. |
| home-schoolers. He found that the majority of | | | | Interestingly, the outcomes of successful |
| the students showed eighty to ninety percent | | | | homeschooling transcends the achievement gaps |
| competencies in their studies at home. | | | | characteristic of public education. So the results in |
| Key to these academic outcomes is the one on | | | | the Rudner research showed high academic |
| one tutorial aspects to instruction. Adventures in | | | | proficiency in all ethnic, racial and economic |
| Learning k-12 is a in home tutorial approach that | | | | groupings. Hats off to Richard Williams, the |
| includes these successful principles for | | | | sharecropper's son, who taught his daughters the |
| home-schooling. | | | | art and science of mastery tennis using his own |
| The 2007 Rand Corporation study conducted for | | | | home schooling approach to instruction. |