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"Back to School" August 27, 2011, Vol. 26, No. 17
Educational ooze
COVER STORY | By Marvin Olasky
From tightening budgets to growing charter schools, slow moving trends are changing American public education More >>
 Features
'Lives have value'
Tiffany Owens
Back to School | A former basketball player takes on the tall task of teaching at-risk kids
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Career crisis
Dan Reed
Back to School | Job market wasn't friendly to college graduates of 2009, 2010, and 2011
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Higher idols
Les Sillars
Back to School | Crazy U shows how we value college far too much and far too little
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Math-tears=Khan
Angela Lu
Back to School | Online program teaches children to love a subject they once dreaded
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Money for nothing
Dan Reed
Back to School | Government's educational spending increases haven't made a better product
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No safe havens
Jerry Bowyer
Back to School | Economics and finance have not escaped onslaught of anti-Christian thought
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Soft sell
Les Sillars, Alicia Constant
Back to School | Charter schools founded by Turkish Muslims try to practice but not preach
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Dispatches
After the downgrade
Edward Lee Pitts
A congressional 'super committee' has its work cut out for it
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CAIR's cops
Jill Nelson
LAPD is fostering close ties with controversial Islamic group
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Crossing divides
Edward Lee Pitts
Christian, Republican, anti-nuclear activist Mark Hatfield was not typical
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Human Race
The Editors
London fights back
The Editors
and other news briefs
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Looking Ahead
The Editors
Moment of decision
Marvin Olasky
Will liberal evangelicals accept HHS scheme regarding abortion drugs?
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Money, meet mouth
Emily Belz
Mitt Romney appears to be GOP frontrunner in charitable giving
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Numbers cruncher
Mindy Belz
David Barrett helped make church statistics count
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Remember the fallen
Emily Belz
Dads. vets among SEALs killed in Afghanistan
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Quick Takes
The Editors
Quotables
The Editors
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Reviews
Actors' albums
Arsenio Orteza
Music | Hugh Laurie does well enough with a new CD, but Jeff Bridges does better
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Box Office Top 10
The Editors
Movies | For the weekend of August 5-7, according to Box Office Mojo
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Jerusalem Countdown
Megan Basham
Movies | As a thriller, the film works, as an evangelism tool, decidedly less so
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Not dead yet
Warren Cole Smith
Q&A | Students taught about death of culture, Christianity should hear other side
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Planet of the Apes
Megan Basham
Movies | This film makes for good summer fun
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The Change-Up
Michael Leaser
Movies | Lessons learned by the characters are practically lost in the R-rated filth
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Well-stocked backpack
Marvin Olasky
Books | Books for navigating classrooms and filling in the gaps
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Whistleblower
Alisa Harris
Movies | Based on the true story of a UN peacekeeper who uncovered sex trafficking
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Notable CDs
America
Five new pop-rock releases reviewed by Arsenio Orteza
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Notable Books
Elyse Fitzpatrick, Jessica Thompson
Books for educating and disciplining children reviewed by Susan Olasky
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Notebook
August tradition
Susan Olasky
Lifestyle | The school year is beginning sooner and the school day is lasting longer
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Grace Gospel Church
The Editors
Houses of God | Pinellas Park, Fla.
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A killer Christian?
Tim Dalrymple
Religion | Norwegian murderer Anders Behring Breivik reveres Christendom, not Christ
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Scrubbing mission
Daniel James Devine
Science | Space shuttle program may be over, but massive cleanup goes on
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Sharpe words
Mark Bergin
Sports | Silver-tongued Hall-of-Famer delivers grand speech on sad life
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Organic thinking
Daniel James Devine
Technology | Utah company aims to make most out of America's vast supply of leftovers
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Voices
Not just kids' stuff
Joel Belz
Longer life expectancies give new perspective on the Fifth Commandment
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The good teacher
Andrée Seu Peterson
All I really need to know I learned on a kindergarten field trip
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Already closed
Janie B. Cheaney
Allan Bloom's famous critique of higher education still speaks
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Downgrade nation
Mindy Belz
Are U.S. economic doldrums tied to a spiritual downturn?
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Mailbag
The Editors
Letters from our readers
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Thousands left behind
Marvin Olasky
Be thankful, son, that you go to an American school—maybe
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