Participation in Education

Elementary/Secondary Enrollment

Table A-30-2. Percentage of students in grades K through 12 whose parents reported that students did homework outside of school and an adult checked that homework was done, by frequency and selected student, school, and family characteristics: 2007

			Number of days per week student was helped with homework¹
Characteristic	Percent of students who did homework outside of school	Adult in household checked that homework was done	No help given		Less than once a week	1 to 2 days a week	3 to 4 days a week		5 or more days a week
All students	94.4	85.4	10.2		20.3	31.7	25.3		12.4
Grades K–8	95.0	95.0	4.3		13.1	32.6	32.9		17.0
Sex
Male	94.6	95.3	4.3		12.9	32.3	32.7		17.8
Female	95.4	94.6	4.3		13.4	32.9	33.2		16.1

Race/ethnicity
White	94.7	94.0	3.8		15.7	34.9	31.3		14.3
Black	95.5	98.1	3.5		7.4	25.2	38.3		25.5
Hispanic	94.8	96.1	7.1		10.3	30.1	34.0		18.6
Asian	97.7	88.5	3.1	!	12.8	37.5	30.7		15.9
Native Hawaiian/Pacific
Islander	‡	‡	‡		‡	‡	‡		‡
American Indian/Alaska
Native	‡	‡	‡		‡	‡	‡		‡

School type
Public	95.1	95.4	4.4		13.1	32.4	32.9		17.2
Private	94.0	91.5	3.6		13.6	34.3	33.5		15.2

Poverty status
Poor	94.2	97.9	6.1		8.8	28.5	35.2		21.3
Nonpoor	95.2	94.2	3.9		14.2	33.7	32.4		15.9

Grades 9–12	93.0	64.6	23.1		35.9	29.7	8.8		2.5
Sex
Male	91.2	67.8	24.1		36.9	29.1	8.2		1.8
Female	94.9	61.4	22.0		35.0	30.4	9.3		3.3

Race/ethnicity
White	94.5	57.2	22.5		41.1	27.7	6.3		2.3
Black	91.8	83.1	19.5		26.5	34.4	16.7		2.9
Hispanic	90.7	75.6	26.2		25.8	33.8	11.0		3.3
Asian	93.6	59.0	26.4		36.1	26.8	7.6	!	3.1
Native Hawaiian/Pacific
Islander	‡	‡	‡		‡	‡	‡		‡
American Indian/Alaska
Native	‡	‡	‡		‡	‡	‡		‡

School type
Public	92.3	66.1	22.8		35.4	30.0	9.1		2.7
Private	98.5	53.1	25.0		40.1	27.5	6.1		1.4

Poverty status
Poor	89.5	81.0	24.2		24.0	36.1	14.0		1.7
Nonpoor	93.7	61.4	22.8		38.3	28.5	7.7		2.7

Coursework
Enrolled in AP classes	96.9	56.3	27.4		36.3	28.3	6.0		1.9
Not enrolled in AP classes	90.6	70.1	20.2		35.7	30.7	10.5		2.9
! Interpret data with caution (estimates are unstable).
‡ Reporting standards not met (too few cases).
¹ Not all students have homework everyday, so estimates in categories other than “5 or more days a week” may not indicate that parents are checking homework less often than their children have homework.
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. For more information on race/ethnicity and poverty status, see supplemental note 1. For more information on the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), see supplemental note 3. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), 2007.

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