Demography Roundup #5
The face of U.S. homeschooling is changing + new data on births on Singapore, the "stickiest" states, and food allergies among kids.
#1: The face of U.S. homeschooling is changing.
Since the pandemic began, homeschooling has boomed. (See “K-12 Truancy Rates Soar” and “Is Homeschooling Holding Down the Labor Supply?”) According to estimates from the Urban Institute, the homeschooling rate rose by +30% between the 2019-20 and 2021-22 school years. As newcomers flood in,…