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GILBERT WHITAKER Business Educator When Whitaker was named dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in 1997, the student body had one minority pupil in a class of 225. Whitaker, now 70, made it a top priority to increase black and Hispanic enrollment, a task he had previously undertaken as dean of the B school at the University of Michigan. One reason for his quest was purely pragmatic. Having more minority students attracts more corporate recruiters, Whitaker says, and this draws more, better-qualified applicants to the school. Today blacks and Hispanics account...
...route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between rows of armor-clad police increased as the week went on. "They'll attack us whatever way we go," said the mother of a seven-year-old pupil. "If we don't go down this way, they'll get us the other...
...receive vouchers). In many ways, in fact, home schooling has become a threat to the very notion of public education. In some school districts, so many parents are pulling their children out to teach them at home that the districts are bleeding millions of dollars in per-pupil funding. Aside from money, the drain of families is eroding something more precious: public confidence in the schools...
...home schooling threatens public schools, look at Maricopa County, Ariz. The county has approximately 7,000 home-schooled students. That's only 1.4% of school-age kids, but it means $35 million less for the county in per-pupil funding. The state of Florida has 41,128 children (1.7%) learning at home this year, up from 10,039 in the 1991-92 school year; those kids represent a loss of nearly $130 million from school budgets in that state. Of course the schools have fewer children to teach, so it makes sense that they wouldn't get as much money...
This cooperation is largely motivated by self-interest--many schools can regain at least a percentage of their per-pupil funding by counting home schoolers, who get more options without being fully part of the system. "These programs can win parents back when they see the school is willing to offer alternative forms of education," says Patricia Lines, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and one of the foremost experts on home schooling. "There's something very efficient about [traditional] schooling, and home schooling isn't exactly efficient." That's one reason TIME found so many home...