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3.30.2012

Should I Homeschool?



Fabulous read here on a home-schooled year...for the child who isn't "fitting in" quite right...love it! 


It turns out that homeschooling is one of the fastest-growing trends in American education. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (part of the U. S. Department of Education), in 2003, 1.1 million children were being homeschooled in the United States--about 2.2 percent of America's school-age population. Brian Ray, founder of the National Home Education Research Institute, places the total higher--somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million. Most experts agree that the number of homeschoolers seems to be expanding at a rate of about 7 to 10 percent per year.
It's impossible to describe a "typical" homeschooled student in America, though the 2003 government study provides a rough profile. Overall, white children in America appear about twice as likely to be home taught as their black peers, and four times more likely than Hispanic children. Most homeschoolers come from two-parent families where only one parent works full-time. Full article below...