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Some critics of the movement argue that parents may have too much freedom under current laws. Only 10 states require parents to have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma to be able to teach. "It's a giant step backward," argues Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which represents more than 15,000 public-school boards across the country. "People tend to think, as one old basketball coach said, that everybody can boil water and coach basketball, and they kind of feel the same way about teaching. They just don't know what they...
...after-school baseball leagues and Boy Scouts and dance classes don't make up the difference. "When you send them out to soccer and scouting, you're usually sending them out to a very select group of people who share, to a considerable extent, your own values," says Shannon. "That's a controlled group. The problem is, when they finally do get to working, they won't be in that controlled group...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...
...spied for the Soviet Union and then Russia. Prosecutors claim he was responsible for the death of at least 10 CIA agents. Rosario pleaded for leniency so she could take care of their son Paul, now living with relatives in her native Bogota, Colombia. But, says TIME correspondent Elaine Shannon, her case was hurt when it came out that in 1992 she accompanied her husband to New York and freely spent $6,000 in money she knew he had "earned" from...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...