Home Sweet Homeschool

Everybody knows somebody who is teaching a child at home, says Milton Gaither, an associate professor of education at Messiah College and author of “Homeschool: An American History.”

Reliable nationwide numbers about home schooling are difficult to obtain. However:

• The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that from 1999 to 2003 the number of home-schooled children increased from around 850,000 to roughly 1.1 million, a 29 percent jump in four years.

• Movement leaders suggest even higher estimates of around 2 to 2.5 million children currently being home schooled.

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Source: Milton Gaither, “Home Schooling Goes Mainstream,” Hoover Institution, Education Next, Vol. 9, No. 1., Winter 2009.

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