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"WASHINGTON, D.C. – A growing number of black
families are choosing to homeschool their children, the U.S. Department
of Education reports.
Although increasing numbers of black families are choosing to homeschool, RiShawn Biddle, who runs Dropout Nation, an education news and policy magazine, says it is difficult to know exactly how drastic the increase has been.
Although increasing numbers of black families are choosing to homeschool, RiShawn Biddle, who runs Dropout Nation, an education news and policy magazine, says it is difficult to know exactly how drastic the increase has been.
“There are more black families that are taking up
homeschooling,” Biddle said. “The question is how many. Currently the
data we have on homeschooling comes from the U.S. Department of
Education, which reports that 139,000 black children aged five through
17 were homeschooled in [the] 2011–12 [school year]. This is a 127
percent increase over levels in 2007.”
Biddle says some traditional public school
administrators have been trying to decrease the number of students who
drop out by counseling students to attend other schools or be
homeschooled."
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“I’ve said that, Tom, that if I were the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux
Klan and I wanted to sabotage any opportunity for black academic
excellence, I could not think of a better means for doing so than the
public education establishment in most of our cities,” Walter Williams. To read the rest of the story go to EAGnews.org.
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