Changes

[[Image:Homeschool.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A young homeschooled student]]

[[Image:Homeschool.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A young homeschooled student]]

{{See also|First Reader}} and ''[[Conservapedia:Index]]''.

{{See also|First Reader}} and ''[[Conservapedia:Index]]''.

'''Homeschooling''' is teaching a child at home rather than in a public or other formal school.  This enables one-on-one teaching of a child to read well, which is the foundation of success. More than 4 million children are being homeschooled in the U.S. as of 2024,<ref name="St">https://admissionsly.com/homeschooling-statistics/</ref> <br>Also, Nearly 7% of college-educated parents homeschool their children. [http://www.sagus.us/blog/blog_details.asp?ID=18&p=7&s=7&s2=7]  "In 2012, there were around 1.8 million homeschool students [in the [[U.S.]]], and in 2021, that number is expected to be above 5 million." [https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/as-the-pandemic-continues-more-families-turning-to-homeschooling]</ref> with an annual growth rate of 2%-8%.<ref name="St"/> The average American received only about 2 years of formal schooling until sometime after the [[American Civil War]].

'''Homeschooling''' is teaching a child at home rather than in a public or other formal school.  This enables one-on-one teaching of a child to read well, which is the foundation of success. More than 4 million children are being homeschooled in the U.S. as of 2024,<ref name="St">https://admissionsly.com/homeschooling-statistics/</ref> with an annual growth rate of 2%-8%.<ref name="St"/> The average American received only about 2 years of formal schooling until sometime after the [[American Civil War]].<ref>Nearly 7% of college-educated parents homeschool their children. [http://www.sagus.us/blog/blog_details.asp?ID=18&p=7&s=7&s2=7]  "In 2012, there were around 1.8 million homeschool students [in the [[U.S.]]], and in 2021, that number is expected to be above 5 million." [https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/as-the-pandemic-continues-more-families-turning-to-homeschooling]</ref>

Homeschooling grew by almost 75% in the eight years before 2011,<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/09/educating-children-evolution-home-schooling</ref> and more than doubled in the following decade despite attacks from teachers' unions and government bureaucrats.<ref>Multiple references:

Homeschooling grew by almost 75% in the eight years before 2011,<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/09/educating-children-evolution-home-schooling</ref> and more than doubled in the following decade despite attacks from teachers' unions and government bureaucrats.<ref>Multiple references: