Word: eds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gill's crew from last year, senior Lauren Toretta, became the other Crimson All-American. Toretta has been a jack-of-all-trades for the Crimson, sailing co-ed the previous spring and trying her hand at skippering before teaming up with Gill...
...early regattas Harvard has already had success. The co-ed squad finished third in the Harry Anderson Trophy at Yale, while the women captured the Man Labs Trophy...
...those parents who are considering home schooling as an alternative to America's often politicized and sometimes dangerous public and private schools, Allison and Heuer are attractive models. But they may not be representative. Not all products of home ed turn out to be academic stars. Many home-educated students, like apprentice chef Rebecca Durkee, 22, of Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs...
Joseph Cirasuolo, superintendent of schools in Wallingford, Conn., has seen the best and worst of home ed: "An excellent education, with computers plugged in," he says, and "horrible, with rote learning and outdated books." Teachers' groups, like the National Education Association, urge stricter regulation, but all 50 states now permit home schooling, with regulations ranging from degree requirements for parents in North Dakota to little or no oversight in Texas and Oklahoma...
Tremendous is the operative word if you're considering home ed. Although some dual-career couples and single parents attempt it, 95% of home-schooling families have one parent who is not working outside the home. Parents have to act as teachers, administrators, social directors and more. Many just plain burn out before high school...