The number of American households homeschooling their children has seen a 100 percent increase amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report is part of the federal agency’s mass-scale online Household Pulse Survey, which asks American families about how the pandemic has affected their lives from education to employment, to food security and household spending, in order to better support the nation’s recovery. Specifically, the Bureau compared survey results from two seven-day periods in the spring and fall of 2020 to offer a glimpse of the pandemic’s impact on homeschooling. Last spring (April 23-May 5), about 5.4 percent of U.S. households with school-aged children reported homeschooling, according to the report. By the fall (Sept. 30-Oct. 12), the percentage more than doubled to 11.1. The Bureau noted that household homeschooling rates had remained steady at around 3.3 percent since 2012, citing previous …