
The Rise of Home Schooling Among African-Americans.
Robert Holland
When the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education, published the results of its survey of American home schoolers in July 2001, some of the figures on demographic distribution fairly jumped off the pages.
By race/ethnicity, the NCES reported that there were an estimated 850,000 home-schooled children nationwide in 1999 and they divided on a racial/ethnic basis as follows:[1]



