THE National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) estimates that there are over two million children being homeschooled in the US in 2010.
According to the US Census Bureau report, there were an estimated 54 million K-12children in the US in 2010, which means homeschoolers account for nearly 4% of the school aged population or 1 in 25 children.
The NHERI study used data from both government and private sources in order to arrive at the two million figure.
The phenomenal growth of the homeschooling movement has to be seen in the context of openness to homeschoolers in mainstream academia. Post-secondary institutions are targeting homeschoolers after studies have shown that homeschoolers outperform conventionally educated children.
A 2010 study published in the Journal of College admission found that ‘homeschool students possess higher scores, grade point averages and graduation rates when compared to students who are traditionally educated.
