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About 2.9 percent7 of all students ages 5 through 17 were homeschooled in 2007, most of them on a full-time basis. A larger percentage of students in two-parent households were homeschooled (3.6 percent) compared with students in one-parent households (1.0 percent). A greater percentage of students living in rural locales were homeschooled (4.9 percent) than were students living in cities or suburbs (2.0 percent vs. 2.7 percent, respectively).
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Homeschooling is an additional education option available to parents. The percentage of students being homeschooled has increased in recent years. Over 1.5 million students were homeschooled in the United States in 2007 compared with 1.1 million in 2003, and 850,000 in 1999 (Bielick 2008).
Trends in the Use of School Choice 1993 to 2007
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a higher percentage of females (3.5 percent) were homeschooled than were males (2.4 percent). A higher percentage of White students (3.9 percent) were homeschooled in 2007 than Hispanic (1.5 percent) or Black (0.8 percent) students. A smaller percentage of poor students (1.8 percent) than near-poor (4.1 percent) or non-poor (2.9 percent) students were homeschooled in 2007. A smaller percentage of students whose parents’ highest level of education was a high school diploma or GED (1.8 percent) were homeschooled than were students whose parents highest level of education was some college or a bachelor’s degree (3.8 and 3.9 percent, respectively). A larger percentage of students in two-parent households (3.6 percent) were homeschooled than were students in one-parent households (1.0 percent). A higher percentage of rural students (4.9 percent) were homeschooled than were students living in cities or suburbs (2.0 and 2.7 percent, respectively).
Trends in the Use of School Choice, 1997 - 2003
So we see a 29% increase in homeschooled students from 1999 to 2003 followed by a 36% increase from 2003 to 2007.
Right?
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A few years back I presented a paper at AERA (on the mathematical thinking and learning of home-educated children) that included this paragraph on its first page:
Although reliable figures are difficult to obtain, in 2003 there were an estimated 1.1 million home-educated children in the United States (NCES, 2003).
This figure is up from 850,000 in 1999, an increase of 29% in just four years (Bielick, Chandler, & Broughman, 1999). That is more students than there are attending school in each of at least 38 of the 50 states. It is more students than attend school in Wyoming, Vermont, Delaware, both North and South Dakota, Alaska, Montana, and Rhode Island combined.
I guess I'll need to update that paragraph when I get around to revising the paper for journal submission.
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