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Most colleges take a close look at standardized-test scores when weighing homeschool applications and find that homeschoolers outperform their school-educated peers. This year homeschoolers scored an average of 1,100 on the SAT--a full 81 points above the national average--and 22.8 on the ACT, compared with the national average...
...calls the series "a corrective to the very sketchy and almost invariably wrong picture of Australia that most Americans have. We are not your lost Wild West." Britain's Guardian describes the series as "a fantastic documentary" that offers "a real, gritty feel for Australia" as well as a close-up of "Hughes' own endearing eccentricities...
...expected to sell briskly when it hits stores on Wednesday. Among the Daddy Dearest revelations: J.D. experimented with Scientology, advised her to abort her baby, had a brief marriage to a Nazi and is now profoundly deaf. Margaret, 44, told the New York Times she's still close to her father, though "he probably hates my guts too, I would say operatically." Yes, probably...
Remember this scene? Your eighth-birthday party. Grandma slips you a small package. Your heart sinks: it's not a Walkman. Grandma leans in close. "It's a savings bond," she says with a wink. "It will help put you through college." That's still the way too many people plan to save for a child's education. Nearly all parents know savings bonds, and a lot have heard of education IRAs. But not nearly enough know about what could be one of the best investments for college: 529 plans...
...Expect this one to get nasty. McCollum is already painting Nelson as a "Clinton clone," and pols who have faced Nelson before insist that he "likes close fighting with a dull knife," says a G.O.P. leader. Both candidates estimate they'll need more than $10 million to win--especially Nelson, who recently jetted around the peninsula with Clinton in Air Force One. Democratic insiders say Clinton has a keen interest in this race--namely, revenge against McCollum--which means McCollum may be the only politician this year to have a bigger Clinton problem than Al Gore...