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...Castro does attend, Elian's presence would also expand his ability to embarrass President Bush, who owes a substantial political debt to Florida's anti-Castro activist community. The President will have a hard enough time dodging a potentially uncomfortable encounter with the Cuban leader, who managed to buttonhole President Clinton at a U.N. event last Fall. But Elian's presence would intensify the media focus on the event, making attendance more even more uncomfortable for President Bush with some of his core constituencies. On the other hand, allowing a Cuban propaganda stunt to keep him away from a conference...
...growing popularity of home schooling is the latest sign of parental frustration with the schools their kids attend--and, as TIME noted in a 1980 cover story, with the beleaguered TEACHERS trying to educate them...
...believe the figure is actually twice that. As recently as 1994, the government estimated the number at just 345,000. True, even the largest estimates still put the home schooled at only 4% of the total K-12 population--but that would mean more kids learn at home than attend all the public schools in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined...
Certainly the old suspicion of the academic credentials of home-schooled kids has waned; perhaps three-quarters of universities now have policies for dealing with home-schooled applicants, according to Cafi Cohen, author of The Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook. Today Harvard admissions officers attend home-schooling conferences looking for applicants, and Rice and Stanford admit home schoolers at rates equal to or higher than those for public schoolers. These schools compete for students like L.J. Decker, 17, from Katy, Texas, who scored 1560 on the SAT and was part of a team of home schoolers who won the Toshiba ExploraVision...
...conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept of obedience" forbidding Chittister to attend on pain of undefined "just penalties...