Homeschooling in the United States

Homeschooling in the United States is the practice of educating children at home, where students do not attend a formal school. As a form of alternative education, homeschooling normally takes the form of parents teaching their children through direct tutoring, religious teachings, experimental or unstructured learning methods.

The US has a long tradition of homeschooling, beginning in the colonial period, where families educated their children at home in absence of local schools. In the US today about 3.3% of K-12 age students are homeschooled. The number of homeschoolers in the US has recently increased in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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