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Home schooling among black families on the rise.(EDUCATION REPORT)(Brief Article)
According to estimates from the National Home Educators Research Institute, in 2003 blacks made up almost 5 percent of home-schoolers, up from 1 percent in 1999. In four years, the number of home-schooled Children doubled, from 850,000 to 1.7 million, while the number of black home-schooled children increased five-fold. Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), corroborates the increase, stating, "About ten years ago, we started seeing more and more black families showing up at conferences and it's been steadily increasing since then."
Joyce Burges, co-founder of the National Black Home Educators Resource Association (NBHER), who home-schooled her five children, said that increasingly, black families are getting fed up with the public school system and are turning to home schooling as an alternative. A 2002 survey conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies revealed that while only 14.3 percent of the general population considered public education ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 9, 2003 700+ words
...children at home. Black families felt, and still...Home-schooling for black families is not a new idea...really legal?" But black families face an additional...founder of Network of Black Homeschoolers in Richmond, explained...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Spratling, Cassandra May 14, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education December 31, 1996 700+ words
...College Education for. Middle-Class Black Families Cutbacks in scholarship funds combined...college altogether. Middle-class black families will also feel a serious financial...expenses. For many middle-class black families the only recourse will be to resort...
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...world. Still, the real income of black families in 1993 hadn't changed from 1969...changed since 1969: One-third of all black families still live in poverty, and blacks...Today, about 80 percent of poor black families are headed by a single parent. The...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Comparative Family Studies Hamptom, Robert L. Gelles, Richard J. March 22, 1994 700+ words
...families. STUDYING MARITAL VIOLENCE IN BLACK FAMILIES In their review of spouse abuse research...and incidence of spousal violence in black families. Straus and his colleagues reported...violence toward wives, or wife abuse, in black families was 113 per 1,000, while the rate...
