"Home schooling grows"

WHY HOME-SCHOOL? Top reasons cited by parents (could pick more than one): • Concerns about the school environment (including safety, drugs, peer pressure): 88% • A desire to provide religious or moral instruction: 83% • A dissatisfaction with instruction at other schools: 73% • An interest in a non-traditional approach: 65% Source: Top home-schooling reasons in 2007 Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey

USA Today article, January 4, 2009
by Janice Lloyd

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-01-04-homeschooling_N.htm

"The 2003 survey gave parents six reasons to pick as their motivation. (They could choose more than one.) The 2007 survey added a seventh: an interest in a "non-traditional approach," a reference to parents dubbed "unschoolers," who regard standard curriculum methods and standardized testing as counterproductive to a quality education."

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