Table of Contents

A bum rap?

Cover Story | Teachers take the blame for public-school failings, but lockstep salary schedules hold good teachers down

Best of both worlds?

Cover Story | New education model allows parents to choose a blend of home and private school

Counting character

Cover Story | Character-ed is growing, but is it working? And other news from the world of education

Home, but not alone

Cover Story | Homeschool athletes look for equal access to sports teams their parents are helping to finance

Cash and creed

Cover Story | Ontario offers a tax break for parents who don't choose tax-funded Catholic and public schools

Let the debate begin

Cover Story | When it comes to education, America's schoolchildren deserve better than business as usual

Get a bill or get it right?

Cover Story | Education legislation is on the fast track in Congress, but haste may make waste

Slave training

Cover Story | America's public-school culture is creating prime targets for demagogic manipulation

Unstoppable choice?

Cover Story | A new education tax credit, by giving choice to those who pay the bills, may be constitutionally bulletproof

Indiana acorns

Cover Story | A new Christian school is helping neighborhood residents reclaim Indianapolis' "Dodge City"

In this issue: "Balancing act," Sept. 8, 2001

Features

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The old standby

National |  Democrats bring back the Social Security scare to attack President Bush's tax cut

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It's a jungle out there

National |  Amazon.com searches for profit, stock pundits strike out, and California's energy crisis eases

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Clearer, faster, poorer

National |  Computers improve their language, chips increase speed, but governors lobby for Internet taxes

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All fought out

International |  Indonesians have not found a way to the peace table, but they are tired of fighting

Dispatches

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The Buzz

AS CONGRESS EDGES CLOSER TO SANCTIONS ON SUDAN THAT WOULD CUT THE FUEL TO KHARTOUM'S WAR MACHINE, THE WHITE HOUSE MAKES KNOWN ITS OPPOSITION Oil change Just…

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Flash Traffic

Political buzz from Washington

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QuickTakes

YOU'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE: Elizabeth Dole is getting into the race to replace Sen. Jesse Helms. Last week, she switched her voter registration from Kansas…

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Quotables

Whether or not we use the word recession is just a question of semantics. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, in an interview with an Italian…

Reviews

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Hanging up harassment

Culture |  Liberals attack a fellow liberal departing the party line: Why isn't this news?

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The Music

Culture |  Top 5 Country CDs for the week ending August 18, according to Billboard magazine

Voices

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The holes in holistic

The truth about medicine may be the truth about truth

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Multi-culti widowhood

American feminists should take their complaints overseas

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Mailbag

Bless Mr. Sharpe I want to commend you for your cover story, "When push comes to shovel" (Aug. 11). As a former caseworker for Child Protective Services in…

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