Every four years the National Center for Education Statistics’ enormous National Household Education Survey includes questions about homeschooling. The results of the latest round of homeschooling questions (from the 2011 survey) were released in August of 2013. This massive survey (n=17,563) provides us with the best data by far on homeschooling, consisting as it does of a representative sample of the entire population of the United States. You can read the preliminary results in tables 7 and 8 of the latest survey here.
Five years ago I summarized what previous rounds of the NCES survey had uncovered about homeschooling. Here I will update that summary, incorporating the newer data. (more…)