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...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 and Darwin. In the gruesome wake of recent school shootings, a new cadre...
Rebecca Durkee's mom taught her exclusively at home from structured lesson plans--no evolution, thank you. Studying to be a chef, Rebecca had to learn how to do "self-motivated work," while Katie Harwood recalls "learning what we wanted, mostly arty things." Tad Heuer took violin and art classes at public school to supplement home-taught history and literature studies that included visits to Civil War battlefields and 19th century authors' homes...
From the field, there are stories by the New York Times' David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan that peel away the optimism of American officialdom. Or read the devastating comparison by the Washington Post's Richard Harwood of inflated, official battle reports against the accounts of correspondents on the scene to understand the origins of the "credibility...
...both 37, took on this subject when they realized that readers of their first book frequently asked them about privacy. When they began their research they were skeptical about whether a serious assault on privacy was under way. Says Alderman, who lives in Maine with her lawyer husband William Harwood: "We thought, Can it really be that bad? But when you look at [the issues] all together, it's really disturbing what's happening." To make this clear, the authors open the book with perhaps the most sensational of their case studies: the story of several women...
...improvement in corporate profits by the end of the year. This should eventually spark further growth. "Things began to turn toward the end of the year, and the signs have multiplied since then. This is a recovery that is gathering pace and is still being underestimated," says Ian Harwood, director of global strategy for the S.G. Warburg investment house in London. "It won't be derailed...