Home-Schooling Growing Faster Among Whites Than It Is for Blacks

New data from the Department of Education reveals that in 2003, 103,000 black children in the United States between the ages of 5 and 17 were being home-schooled. This is up from 84,000 in 1999, a 22.6 percent increase. In 2003, 1.3 percent of all black children ages 5 to 17 were home-schooled, up from 1.0 percent in 1999.

Whites have shown an even larger increase in home-schooling. In 2003 there were 843,000 white home-schooled students. This was an increase of 31.7 percent from 1999. In 2003, 2.7 percent of all white children ages 5 to 17 were home-schooled, up from 2.0 percent in 1999.

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