"According to the Johns Hopkins Institute, using census data, about 2.8% of children were homeschooled in 2019. That number is now close to 6% and continues to climb."
More than doubled in about six years.
This is great news!
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/11/20/homeschooling-is-booming-and-the-pandemic-has-little-to-do-with-it-n4946214
Good news!
Having the Federal government involved in public education has harmed our children. Having a few bureaucrats in Washington DC dictate how and what millions of teachers has stifled flexibility and lead to a huge work agenda.
Returning the decisions on public education to the states will allow parents to have more control over the education of their children.
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2025/07/23/breaking-the-public-school-monopoly-on-education-overdue-n2660788
Luis von Ahn explains why and how he helped develop Duolingo:
We hope everyone had a good Christmas.
And we wish you the best in the New Year!
This is good news.
https://redstate.com/carcand/2022/06/28/arizona-secures-the-biggest-school-choice-victory-in-u-s-history-n585353
Number of students being homeschooled in Colorado more than doubles starts with:
DENVER (KDVR) — New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the number of families opting to homeschool their children is on the rise.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the rate of households homeschooling reached 11% by September 2020. Six months prior, only 5.4% of families were registered for homeschooling.
In our state, the latest data from the Colorado Department of Education shows the number of students homeschooling more than doubled last year to 15,773. In 2019, only 7,880 students were being homeschooled.
Hat tip: Instapundit
The percentage of children being homeschooled in the U.S. has nearly doubled since the start of the COVID-19, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.
The number of students increased from 5.6% in March 2020, to 11% in Sept. 2020, according to the most recent bureau report on the issue, released in March.
Prior to the pandemic, roughly 3.3% of U.S. households homeschooled children.
Black households saw the largest increase. Their homeschooling rate rose from 3.3% in the spring of 2020 to 16.1% in the fall according to the report.
In Free to choose -- and learn, Joanne Jacobs reports on a study which found that:
"The more a state provides parents with the freedom to choose their child’s school the better the state’s students score on the National Assessment of Education Outcomes (NAEP)," writes Patrick Wolf on Project Forever Free.
It will be interesting to see where the parent backlash against the teacher unions goes.
Parents are pushing harder to have their children taught while teachers claim special privileges.
It is not clear to me why teachers think it is OK for hospital and grocery store workers to go to work, but some how schools are a death trap.
The parents are experiencing this callous attitude first hand. As Liesl Hickey reports in USA Today, some are preparing to sue teachers unions in Arizona, California, Illinois, and Virginia. If teachers don’t go back to work, there will be many more such lawsuits. If that fails, it’s time to start firing teachers. In the end, the inflexibility of the teachers unions is a function of its individual members. There is no significant risk associated with in-person instruction. The teachers know it, and the science proves it. Most importantly, the parents know it. If teachers remain intransigent and the Democrats acquiesce in their obstinance, parents will certainly revolt at the ballot box.
I like John Stossel's video on Parenting: Delayed Gratification:
Colleges Have Shed 550,000 Employees Since The Pandemic Began has a nice chart showing a huge drop.
This line is fascinating: Colleges Have Shed 10% Of Their Employees Since The Pandemic Began
Hat tip: Instapundit
Reason's column on Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children reports that:
Homeschooling, in particular, is booming. Once regarded as a fringe choice for hippies and religious families, various approaches to DIY education pushed into the mainstream in recent decades and reached critical mass this year. An estimated 3.3 percent of children were homeschooled in 2016, up from 1.7 percent in 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That share roughly tripled this year to nine percent, in an Education Week survey. Gallup agrees, finding that 10 percent of children are now being homeschooled.
I never guessed that we'd experience a 3X jump in just a couple years.
Hat tip: Instapundit
