The Private School Boom

Though it has received comparatively little notice in the media, a beneficial revolution is currently unfolding within the ranks of American education. To wit: an explosive growth in private schooling, typically religious in character.

Between 1965 and 1975, according to the Bureau of the Census, the number of students in private schools in the United States (outside of the Catholic parochial school system) more than doubled—from 615,548 to 1,443,000. Robert Baldwin, executive director of Citizens for Educational Freedom, estimates that independent schools are currently being founded at a rate of about three a day, or one every seven hours; if this pace continues, by 1990 there will be more independent schools in the United States than government ones. Most of these newer schools have a religious emphasis or affiliation.

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Though it has received comparatively little notice in the media, a beneficial revolution is currently unfolding within the ranks of American education. To wit: an explosive growth in private schooling, typically religious in character.

Between 1965 and 1975, according to the Bureau of the Census, the number of students in private schools in the United States (outside of the Catholic parochial school system) more than doubled—from 615,548 to 1,443,000. Robert Baldwin, executive director of Citizens for Educational Freedom, estimates that independent schools are currently being founded at a rate of about three a day, or one every seven hours; if this pace continues, by 1990 there will be more independent schools in the United States than government ones. Most of these newer schools have a religious emphasis or affiliation.