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850,000 stay home to learn.(home schooling)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

American School & University,  September, 2001  

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An estimated 850,000 students nation-wide were being schooled at home in the spring of 1999, according to a new federal report. The National Center for Education Statistics conducted a survey and found that 1.7 percent of U.S. students aged 5 to 17 were receiving school lessons at home.

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Compared with nonhomeschoolers, a greater percentage of homeschoolers were white, non-Hispanic--75 percent of homeschoolers were white, non-Hispanic, ...

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