This is a major controversy that first showed up in 1997, when 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won the National Spelling Bee, showing the startled public that her unorthodox education must be doing something right. ... "This year, home-schooled kids swept the top three places on the National Spelling Bee, and Stanford accepted twenty-seven percent of its home-schooled applicants, nearly twice its average acceptance rate" (Lubienski 207). ... The horror of the fatal shootings at Columbine brought focus to the issue for many who before were uncertain about educating their child...

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RECENT JOURNALISM ABOUT PROVOKED BY SEPTEMBER 11 HATE CRIMES A year ago on September 11 all Americans were really hurt by the terrorist attack. Within this year a lot of us continued to get hurt but by attacks on each other. These attacks are mostly Muslim hate crim...

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