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...percentage points across all subjects. Citing its annual growth rate as 7 to 15 percent, NHERI president Dr. Brian Ray calls homeschooling “the fastest-growing form of education,” and these sharp increases mirror the equally dramatic rise in homeschool applicants to Harvard.Grace S. Cheng, a Harvard Admissions Officer who oversees homeschool applications, estimates that her office now receives between 75 and 150 homeschooled applicants each year—a increase from the 1989 estimates of 5 to 10 homeschooled applicants per year.Cheng says homeschoolers are neither at an advantage nor disadvantage when applying...
...today. That is so partly because many of those who benefited during a decade of madness not only have gone unpunished but are trying to make a comeback, and partly because a story that so vividly documents the triumph of the human spirit over inhumanity is always relevant. Nien Cheng, 72, born into a wealthy landowning family, met her husband, Kang-chi Cheng, in 1935 in England, where both were studying at the London School of Economics. The husband, a diplomat in the Kuomintang regime, was enough of an optimist to decide to remain in Shanghai with his wife...
...young woman waiting to greet Nien Cheng outside the prison was not Meiping, as she still kept hoping, but her goddaughter Hean, the daughter of an old friend. Hean took Cheng to a small house where the released prisoner had been assigned two rooms on the second floor. But what had become of Meiping? Hean did not answer. Only when Cheng insisted did Hean tell her that Meiping had committed suicide on June 16, 1967, during Cheng's first year in prison. At least that was the official story -- that she had jumped from the ninth floor of the Shanghai...
...wrist slap: a sentence of two years. In September 1980, Cheng left China, moving to Ottawa for about three years, then to Washington, D.C., where she now lives. ''In Washington,'' she says, ''I live a full and busy life. Only sometimes I feel a haunting sadness. At dusk, when the day is fading away and my physical energy is at a low ebb, I may find myself depressed and nostalgic. But next morning I invariably wake up with renewed optimism to welcome the day as another God-given opportunity for enlightenment and experience. My only regret is that Meiping...
...attractive. The country's GDP grew 10.7% last year, the highest rate since 1995. But the alarm is being sounded by Beijing officials, who are worried there could be another Chinese market meltdown like the one in 2001 that soured the public on stocks for years. On Dec. 30, Cheng Siwei, a vice chairman of the National People's Congress, cautioned investors against "blind optimism" in the country's relatively underdeveloped capital markets. China Central Television, the government TV network, last week aired a show warning citizens not to put up their homes as collateral for loans to buy stock...