Concludes that prior research show either no difference between homeschooled children and other children, or a difference favoring homeschooled children. This suggests that homeschooled children's social skills are certainly no worse than those of children attending conventional schools, and are probably better. This study finds that homeschooled children's social skills scores were consistently higher than those of public school students. Differences were most marked for girls and for older children, and encompassed all four of the specific skills tested: cooperation, assertiveness, empathy, and self-control. Among homeschooled children, girls were more empathetic and assertive than boys, and at the lower grades, more self-controlled. There appears to be a convergence of evidence from three different perspectives--parental report, objective observers, and self-report--that homeschooled children's social skills are exceptional. Keywords: home schooling, homeschooling, home education, research, public school, cooperation, assertiveness, empathy, and self-control