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1.  Julie Makinen, "New York Home-Schooler Is Queen of the

National Spelling Bee in D.C.," Washington Post, May 30,

1997, p. A9; and Deb Riechmann, "Nerve-Wracked: Home-

schooled Teen Top Speller," Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 30,

l997, p. 5.

2.  U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Educa-

tion Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 1996,

Table 5.

3.

Ibid., Table 166.

4.  Alec M. Gallup and Stanley M. Elam, "The 20th Annual

Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public

Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, September 1988, p. 36.

5.  Elizabeth Gleick, "The Costly Crisis in Our Schools,"

Time, January 30, 1995, p. 67.

6.  Edward B. Fiske, Smart Schools, Smart Kids (New York,

Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 13.

7.  Franklin P. Schargel, "Total Quality in Education,"

Quality Progress, October 1993, p. 67.

8.  Cited in Sheldon Richman, Separating State and School

(Fairfax, Va.: Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994), p. 111.

9.  Patricia M. Lines, "Homeschooling: Private Choices and

Public Obligations," U.S. Department of Education, Office of

Research, 1993, p. 1.

10. Brian D. Ray, "A Profile of Home Education Research,"

Home School Legal Defense Association, Purcellville, Va.,

1992, p. 6.

11. John Lyon, "Reclaiming the Schools: Reconciling Home and

Education," The Family in America 8, no. 6 (June 1994): 3.

12. Raymond Moore, "Homegrown and Homeschooled," Mothering,

Summer 1990, p. 79.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., p. 80.

15. Ibid.