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No parent kept informed

No parent kept informed

Cover Story | Public-school obstinacy may be keeping a highly touted education reform from making 'adequate yearly progress'

History of 'No Child Left Behind'

Cover Story Sidebar | NCLB is the seventh reauthorization of President Lyndon Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

In this issue: "Education: Sick schools," Sept. 18, 2004

Features

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Unscientific methods

Back to School 2004 |  Does freedom of speech end at the classroom door?

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Quiet time

Back to School 2004 |  Fear of litigation muzzles expressions of faith

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Kitchen-sink unionism

Back to School 2004 |  Annual teacher gatherings focus on everything except students

Storm warning
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Storm warning

Election |  ELECTION: With costs estimated at $10 billion and counting, Hurricanes Charley and Frances were two of the worst natural disasters to strike Florida in more…

Block the vote
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Block the vote

Church/State |  Politics ends at the narthex door, says liberal Midwest watchdog group, but what about voter registration?

A time for anger
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A time for anger

Terrorism |  Small Russian community lacked enough tractors to dig graves for its dead children, but how will the government contend with the abundance of grief, anger,

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Fight or flight?

Politics |  A sudden Bush bounce in the polls throws a scare into Democrats

Numbers game
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Numbers game

Economy |  What census figures on poverty say-and don't say

Dispatches

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The Buzz

WALKING THE WALK Weather As Hurricane Ivan flattened the island of Grenada with 140-mph winds, Floridians focused on cleaning up after a weaker-but…

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Quick Takes

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down A stranger dropped in unannounced at the Forest Grove, Ore., home of Barbara Vreeland on Aug. 31. Ms. Vreeland was in her…

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Quotables

Memorable things they said

Reviews

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Best-selling books

Notable Books |  The top five best-selling nonfiction hardbacks as measured by their rankings on the lists of Barnes & Noble, USA Today, The New York Times, and American…

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The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis

Television |  A PBS miniseries on the differing worldviews of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis

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Paparazzi

Movies |  There is a good movie in the concept, but this film isn't it

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Wicker Park

Movies |  The muddled Wicker Park is a remake of the 1996 French film L'Appartement. Set in snowy Chicago, the film has atmosphere to spare, but flat performances…

Notebook

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Outpacing Europe

Business |  Manufacturers across the European Union have cut payrolls for 39 consecutive months

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Tarnished dome

Sports |  Some think the Fighting Irish might be headed for an abyss

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Easily bugged

Technology |  The Bugmenot site says it's a protest against sites that give away news content in exchange for users' demographic data

Voices

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Mailbag

Letters from our readers

Hostile takeover
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Hostile takeover

Liberal dominance in academia and media was not inevitable

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Bicycle built for two

Learning about marriage is a tandem sport

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Bohemian rhapsody

A fashionable disdain for middle-class values animates liberalism

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Judgment call

The most important issue in this year's election has nothing to do with the economy or the war

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