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Home-schooling growing in popularity
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Jan 06, 2009 04:18am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The number of U.S. children being home-schooled has steadily increased during recent years and shows no sign of declining, a statistician says.
There was a 74 percent increase in the number of home-school children between 1999 and 2007.
Gail Mulligan of the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics said a variety of reasons led to 1.5 million children being primarily educated in U.S. homes in 2007, USA Today said Monday.
Among the home-schooling reasons given by parents in a 2007 survey were moral and religious factors, along with concerns about family time and finances.
Whatever the cause for the increase in the number of home-schooled students, Mulligan said, the figures will likely keep rising.
"There's no reason to believe it would not keep going up," she told USA Today
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