Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HOME SCHOOLING Overall, the outcome has been favorable for the growing ranks of children educated at home by their parents...
...legend in his homeland and probably the most famous New Zealander ever (his face even graces the local $5 bill), during Clinton's state visit next week following the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Auckland. Sir Edmund won't, however, meet the Rodham Clinton Hillary, who is staying home. The White House insists that New York Senate politics has nothing to do with the get-together. Rather, a spokesman said, the President considers the explorer a leading environmentalist and one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century...
Debbie Smith, a receptionist in a hair salon in Williamsburg, Va., had given up hope that the police would ever catch the man who took her from her kitchen and raped her in the woods outside her home in 1989. She didn't get a good look at him during the assault, and the investigators didn't have any solid leads. For years Smith lived in fear that he would return and attack her or her daughters. But one day, her husband, a police officer, came home with good news: the state DNA lab had caught her rapist. Norman Jimmerson...
...schools for parents. LaForge interviewed teachers, principals, school psychologists and other experts to develop her profiles of classrooms in each grade. She urges every parent to make a commitment to stay involved in his or her child's education, whether by volunteering, reading all the papers the school sends home, supervising homework or even making sure that a child gets a good breakfast. Sound like too much homework in these busy times? "Your child's success at school," writes LaForge, "has to be important enough for you to want to find the time and energy to stay...
...most oft-cited excuses for why the races don't mix more on TV is that they don't mix more off it. We may mingle at work and school, but the home remains mostly monochrome. The small-screen picture of race has inevitably suffered, for while in cop shows and historical movies race is an "issue," only in our most intimate domestic and social arenas can we see it as a multifaceted fact of life. For that reason alone, An American Love Story (PBS, Sept. 12-16, check local listings), a 10-hr. documentary about an interracial family...