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 2.5 million, a 29 percent jump in four years.
Some states keep their own figures: Virginia had 3,816 registered home schoolers in 1990; by 2007 the number had grown to 20,694; Maryland saw similar growth, from 2,296 in 1990 to 24,227 in 2006.
Survey research has revealed a heterogeneous population of home schoolers and higher rates of minority home schooling than expected, with the Black homeschool movement growing at a faster rate than the general homeschool population.
"Families are running out of options," says Jennifer James, National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance. "There's this persistent achievement gap, and a lot of black children are doing so poorly in traditional schools that parents are looking for alternatives."
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